Abstract
Nowadays, cyberbullying has become a problem of social harassment in numerous educational centres worldwide. New communication technologies have provided the perfect support for the development of this type of harassment in peer relationships, in addition to being linked to broad social and economic circumstances. In this study, the global trends of the socioeconomic implications of cyberbullying in the educational context have been analysed, from 2004 to 2019. Thus, a bibliometric analysis has been applied to 1128 articles, obtaining results of the evolution of scientific activity in this period. The articles are mainly associated with the thematic areas of Social Sciences, Psychology, Medicine and Computer Science. Seven main thematic axes have been detected, highlighting those related to the psychological aspect, adolescence, and the school environment. Likewise, the link of the main authors, institutions, and countries to these lines of research has been detected. The evidence has shown the interest and relevance of this topic at the international level. Future research lines propose different analyses about how certain socioeconomic factors influence this psychological harassment inside and outside the classroom.
Highlights
In recent decades, technological advances allow communication with other people through digital devices to be incorporated into our daily interaction dynamics
The linear trend line shows that scientific production on the research topic has increased at a constant rate from the end of 2006 to 2019, that is, over a period of more than twelve years
This work has analysed the main trends in global research on the socioeconomic factors associated with CB, in the period that begins with the publication of the first article on this research topic (2004)
Summary
Technological advances allow communication with other people through digital devices to be incorporated into our daily interaction dynamics. In the case of adolescents, most of the interactions take place in educational centres [3]. This is undoubtedly because the school is one of the main places where children and young people spend most of their time, and it is one of the spaces where their socialization takes place through daily coexistence. This place is very important in the development of antisocial or criminal behaviours at school age and, it can be key in their prevention [4]
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