Abstract
This article analyses the views of cyberbullying prevention among 5-12 grade pupils and teachers in Lithuanian schools. It defines the concept of cyberbullying in the context of school pupils, and analyses the theoretical grounds for prevention of this form of bullying. The article also presents the results of the survey (which was conducted in 2009-2010) and reveals the views of 2064 pupils of 5 -12 grade and their 1062 teachers towards the prevention of cyberbullying. Based on the empirical research, it could be concluded that efforts to prevent cyberbullying among 5-12 grade pupils in school must be consistent, and permanent, and involve the whole school community. From the perspective of the pupils, the most effective measures to prevent cyberbullying should be oriented toward psychological conditioning (to strengthen pupil's self-esteem and to outline the consequences for pupils who are involved in cyberbullying).
Highlights
Bullying among pupils is acknowledged as a serious problem in school and has been widely investigated by researches in various countries
The results of the pupil’s survey revealed that more than half of the pupils who took part in the survey had never been involved in cyberbullying using the mobile phone (51.25%) and an even higher percentage (57.11%) had never been involved in cyberbullying using the Internet
More than half of the teachers questioned thought that cyberbullying among pupils happened 1-3 times a month; 54.75% of teachers said that it happened using the mobile phone and 50.81% using the Internet
Summary
Bullying among pupils is acknowledged as a serious problem in school and has been widely investigated by researches in various countries. Due to development of sophisticated digital tools, bullying among pupils has taken new form: cyberbullying. The core behavior defining this phenomenon is the spreading of hurtful, humiliating texts or images via the Internet or cellphone [25]. Patchin and Hinduja [15] define cyberbullying as the act of doing intentional and recurrent harm to another person using electronic tools. According to Smith and Slonje [23], a variety of terms are used for this phenomenon: of these, “cyberbullying” is the most common term and others such as “electronic bullying” or “digital bullying” are limited to bullying using digital tools. In this article the term “cyberbullying” is used
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