The Relationship Between Self-Harm and Bullying Behavior: Results from a Population Based-Study of Adolescents

This paper aims to explain the phenomenon of cyberbullying among vocational school students that belong in the group on social media. In this study, the data gathered from the informant is social media activists who have seen or experienced as victims of bullying in their community groups. The proven data validation level is further analyzed by an interactive analysis method to draw the conclusion of each case that appears in the social media groups. The results showed the symbol of the message used as an interaction tool of the group members who are often considered to be potentially offensive and tend to cause an unpopular relationship among the members of the symbol of the icon emotion with the text accompanying the icon. The symbol was originally used as an expression of relations between members. But gradually the use of the symbol is no longer controlled and by the communities, categorized spam is even regarded as a language that leads to cyberbullying. Cyberbullying victims usually struggle themselves to prevent and fight off any form of unwanted messages. As a final act, if the victim of cyberbullying is no longer able to fight it, he intentionally will come out as a member of the group. While the members of the group do not have symptoms of cyberbullying, they tend to be passive. If he empathizes with the victim then he will send a private message and be followed up with face-to-face communication.

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“…Social media group was formed as a collaboration tool between fellow students and teachers in a virtual communication network [16].…”

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The Phenomenon of Cyberbullying in the Virtual Social Media Communication Community

Siswanta¹,

Sekarwangi²,

Triharyanto³

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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“…The multi-determined pathways of DSH could be a sequence of distal vulnerability factors, for example insecure attachment to parents ( 28 ) or early adverse life events ( 29 ) leading to low self-esteem, self-criticism and perfectionism ( 30 ), which in turn makes the individual vulnerable to specific proximal stressors and ultimately increases the risk of DSH ( 31 , 32 ). Proximal stressors could, for example, include interpersonal problems, bullying ( 33 ) or being exposed to DSH in media or among peers ( 34 - 36 ). Protective factors, on the other hand, such as self-compassion and perceived support from others, are found to buffer the impact of peer victimization and thus lower the risk of DSH ( 37 , 38 ).…”

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Before the damage is done: Early childhood hyperactivity difficulties in adolescents with deliberate self-harm – findings from the DALSC cohort

Evald¹,

Møhl

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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Background: Deliberate self-harm (DSH) is a growing issue among Danish adolescents, and a dramatic increase in the incidence of DSH has been observed since the turn of the millennium. The importance of early childhood factors on later development has been established, but research on the trajectories of DSH is still scarce, and longitudinal studies are much needed. Method: Participants were 3,291 children and their mothers from The Danish Longitudinal Survey of Children (DALSC), a Danish population-based birth cohort from 1995. Logistic regression and mediation analyses were used to examine significant early childhood determinants of self-harming behavior in adolescence. Results: The study found that 17.9% of the children had a history with DSH at the age of 18 years. A significant relationship was found between the likelihood of DSH at the age of 18 years and hyperactivity difficulties assessed through the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) at 3 and 7 years of age. Using a mediation model, it is documented that difficulties in peer relationships at the age of 11 years is a partial mediator explaining 19% of the variation. Limitations: i) a vague definition of self-harm in the questionnaires; ii) lack of sample representation as children of lower socio-economic groups have lower participation rates, and only Danish-ethnicity children have been sampled; iii) possibility of omitted variable bias. Conclusion: The adolescents engaging in DSH are experiencing a more complex range of psychosocial problems than those who do not have experience with DSH. The main finding of the study is that hyperactivity as a risk factor for the development of DSH in adolescence can be identified as early as 3–7 years of age. This relationship between the very early occurring hyperactivity and later DSH, to the best of our knowledge, has not previously been described.

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The Relationship Between Self-Harm and Bullying Behavior: Results from a Population Based-Study of Adolescents

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The Phenomenon of Cyberbullying in the Virtual Social Media Communication Community

The Phenomenon of Cyberbullying in the Virtual Social Media Communication Community

Before the damage is done: Early childhood hyperactivity difficulties in adolescents with deliberate self-harm – findings from the DALSC cohort

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