Cyberbullying has been linked to various adverse mental and psychosocial outcomes in children and adolescents, rendering it a significant public health problem. A slew of correlational studies has shown a strong connection between youth participation in cyberbullying and adverse health indices. (Nixon 2014) According to studies, one-third of students have experienced cyberbullying at some point in their lives, which is a staggering figure.

The exponential growth of emerging information and communication technology and the pervasive introduction of interactive devices into the lives of modern people have been blamed for the rise of cyberbullying. (Pereira & Barbosa 2019) You may feel very cheerful and brave when bullying others from behind a screen if you are the one who does the bullying.

Since cyberbullying does not occur in the true sense of the term, many institutions do not take action. Bullying is a far more significant problem than many other people realize, and it has evolved. Bullying isn’t going to get any better. Especially because now everybody has a smartphone with social media, it’s only getting worse.

Adverse Outcomes of Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying relates to a variety of adverse outcomes, according to research. We understand very little about the attitudes of people who go through bullying. Their desires, and responses due to their various positions and how this compares to the traditional bullying encounters. Gualdo et al. (2015) investigated whether cyberbullies’ perceptions of the impact of their actions match the impact recorded by cyber victims.

The researchers also have a look into whether emotional responses to cyberbullying vary. This depends on whether or not the survivor has already been a victim of conventional bullying. A total of 1353 Spanish teenagers took part in the study. Cyberbullying results are from around 8% of the respondents.  According to the replies to the individual effect products, the most typical emotional reaction predicted by victims of cyberbullying was “scared,” accompanied by “annoyed,” according to the replies to the individual effect products.

Bullying victims and offenders have lower social well-being in previous studies. Cyberbullying, including social violence, has a negative relationship with perceived wellbeing indices. Multiple regression models replicated these results after correcting for gender and ranking. However, cyberbullying victimization had little predictive power on school-related wellbeing or particular dimensions of life satisfaction.

Bullying has detrimental consequences on both victims and offenders. Youths who undergo bullying are often more likely than their peers that are not to feel a lack of inclusion in their social groups. (Navarro et al. 2015)