Social Information Processing Links to Cyber-bullying in Adolescence: A Developmental Perspective
| dc.contributor.author | Bak, Michal | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Martin, Joan M. | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Runions, Kevin C. L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-30T17:44:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-18T11:22:07Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2015 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-09-30 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The internet has become an important social context in adolescence, and communicating online with friends has become a natural part of everyday life. The present cross-sectional study examined the effects of social cues and popularity on developing adolescent social cognitions in online settings using a sample of 90, 11- to 14-year-old students from British Columbia, Canada. Participants completed self-report cyber-bullying, cyber-victimization, and cyber-aggression motivation measures. Hostile intent attributions were obtained using an instrument containing 8 hypothetical vignettes, where potentially harmful messages were sent to the protagonist, but the sender’s intentions were ambiguous. The results show an increasing cyber-bullying and cyber-victimization trend from early- to mid- adolescence. There was some evidence to suggest that individuals in mid-adolescence were more sensitive to online social cues and popularity. Individuals in mid-adolescence were more likely to engage in cyber-aggressive behavior to obtain a material or social reward. Despite having a small sample size, this study provides a good foundation for further research examining developmental processes that underlie cyberbullying behavior. | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/6736 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ca/ | * |
| dc.subject | cyber-bullying | en_US |
| dc.subject | cyber-victimization | en_US |
| dc.subject | adolescence | en_US |
| dc.subject | social information processing | en_US |
| dc.subject | dual process model | en_US |
| dc.title | Social Information Processing Links to Cyber-bullying in Adolescence: A Developmental Perspective | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |