The Relationship between Forms of Cyberbullying and Similarities in Personal Attributes among Chinese Adolescents

Abstract

The popularization of access to the internet has led cyberbullying become the major cause of severe physical and psychological illnesses among Chinese adolescents. This research aims to find out how the similarity in personal attributes between the participants and the potential victim of cyberbullying correlates with different forms of cyberbullying. Questionnaires are filled out by participants, which included detailed stories or statements and personal attribute scales, aiming to find out their acceptance of cyberbullying behavior in different situations towards different misbehaving victims. According to correlational analysis, ANOVA, and descriptive analysis, results are found that male participants are overall more likely to argue with or insult someone on the internet when others harmed them than their female counterparts. Additionally, overall, the more similarity our participants had with the victim, the more agreement they had toward cyberbullying behaviors. Future studies can be done on more potential factors of cyberbullying based on the data we have collected.