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Cyber-Victimization and Cyber-Aggression among Portuguese Adolescents: The Relation to Family Support and Family Rules

Cyber-Victimization and Cyber-Aggression among Portuguese Adolescents: The Relation to Family Support and Family Rules

Maria José D. Martins, Ana Margarida Veiga Simão, Isabel Freire, Ana Paula Caetano, Armanda Matos
Copyright: © 2016 |Volume: 6 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 14
ISSN: 2155-7136|EISSN: 2155-7144|EISBN13: 9781466692602|DOI: 10.4018/IJCBPL.2016070105
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Martins, Maria José D., et al. "Cyber-Victimization and Cyber-Aggression among Portuguese Adolescents: The Relation to Family Support and Family Rules." IJCBPL vol.6, no.3 2016: pp.65-78. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCBPL.2016070105

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Martins, M. J., Simão, A. M., Freire, I., Caetano, A. P., & Matos, A. (2016). Cyber-Victimization and Cyber-Aggression among Portuguese Adolescents: The Relation to Family Support and Family Rules. International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL), 6(3), 65-78. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCBPL.2016070105

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Martins, Maria José D., et al. "Cyber-Victimization and Cyber-Aggression among Portuguese Adolescents: The Relation to Family Support and Family Rules," International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning (IJCBPL) 6, no.3: 65-78. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJCBPL.2016070105

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Abstract

This study aims to clarify how the quality of the family environment is related to the involvement in cyberbullying behaviors, either as a cyber-victim or as a cyber-aggressor, via a cross-sectional research design. With this purpose a diagnostic questionnaire with questions about both the quality of family environment and cyberbullying was conceived and administered to 3525 adolescents attending 6th, 8th and 11th grades at several schools in Portugal. The results suggested that two family aspects seem to be equally important in protection against cyberbullying: perception of family support and perception of rules within the family. A hierarchical regression analysis reveals that lack of family support is more predictive of cyber-victimization and that a lack of family rules is more predictive of cyber-aggression. The authors discuss the implications for the well-being of adolescents, as well as the challenges that parents face in the supervision of adolescents' use of digital technologies.

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