2017/11/21 by Gianluca Gini, Noel A. Card, Tiziana Pozzoli · 187 citations
Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Aggression #Bivariate analysis #Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression #Child Development and Digital Technology #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Extant taxon #Human factors and ergonomics #Impact of Technology on Adolescents #Injury prevention #Mathematics #Medical emergency #Medicine #Meta-analysis #Moderation #Poison control #Psychology #Social psychology #Statistics #Suicide prevention
paper · doi:10.1002/ab.21742
published in Aggressive Behavior 44(2), 185-198 (Wiley)
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This meta-analysis examined the associations between cyber-victimization and internalizing problems controlling for the occurrence of traditional victimization. Twenty independent samples with a total of 90,877 participants were included. Results confirmed the significant intercorrelation between traditional and cyber-victimization (r = .43). They both have medium-to-large bivariate correlations with internalizing problems. Traditional victimization (sr = .22) and cyber-victimization (sr = .12) were also uniquely related to internalizing problems. The difference in the relations between each type of victimization and internalizing problems was small (differential d = .06) and not statistically significant (p = .053). Moderation of these effect sizes by sample characteristics (e.g., age and proportion of girls) and study features (e.g., whether a definition of bullying was provided to participants and the time frame used as reference) was investigated. Results are discussed within the extant literature on cyber-aggression and cyber-victimization and future directions are proposed.