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Student’s Name ABDULLA ANAAN IBRAHIM
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Batch No VIL BHRM B08

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Assignment title Business English II- ( Assignment 1- Individual Report)

Hand-in date 13th February 2023

Date of submission 27th March 2023

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 Report on “Cyberbullying”
Executive Summary
The development of information and communication technology (ICT) has made it possible for
people to engage with one another and access a wealth of knowledge, especially for children and
teenagers. Although this has numerous advantages for their social and emotional growth, these
communication tools have also made them more prone to a widespread social concern known as
cyberbullying (Chen et al, 2016). Cyberbullying impacts its victims socially, academically and
psychologically. Major social issues like social-anxiety and psychological issues like anger, stress
and mental disorders like depression has predominantly affected overall academic performance of
the young children and adolescents. Thus, there is a critical need of implementing anti-cyber
bullying initiatives at different level namely school, parental and individual level. Schools
majorly can introduce bullying prevention policies/programs, the parents can primarily work on
establishing a healthy adolescent-parent relationship and at individual level, the youth themselves
can advocate for each other and report cyberbullying actions to empower healthy youth.

Introduction

This assignment will focus on a detailed report on one of the most common global social issues
among youth known as ‘cyberbullying’. Within this report, I have emphasized on the concept of
cyber bullying, impact of cyber bulling on the victims in terms of social, academic and
psychological aspects with reference to various literature. Also, I have presented some of my
suggestions to tackle with this social issue in order to build a more responsible and humble
generation of youth for the future.

About Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying has emerged as one of the most prevalent social problems due to the widespread
use of social media (Görzig & Frumkin, 2013). According to Hidayah et al (2022), Cyberbullying
is generally perceived as an aggressive behavior that is purposefully carried out by a group or an
individual utilizing computer devices against a victim who is defenseless. It can take many forms,
including abusive or offensive messages, malicious rumors, embarrassing postings, sensitive
information, improper images or videos, trolling, and many others that aim to harm individuals on
the internet (Hidayah et al, 2022). As per the findings of Hinduja & Patchin (2014), anyone can
be a victim although it is more evident among today’s youth and children as they are enticed to
social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter, as well as video-sharing
websites like Tiktok and YouTube being global avenues for cyberbullying.
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Effects of Cyberbullying

o Academic aspect

Cyberbullying is shown to have detrimental effects on the academic performance of school

children as well as undergraduates in various parts of the world. (Faucher et al, 2014). According
to Hidayah et al (2022), the cyberbullied victims often lose motivation to gain good grades and
often shows poor concentration during classes/lectures. This causes them to fail in most of the
exams gaining lower academic grades. (Hidayah et al, 2022).

o Social Aspect

Findings of Nixon (2014) shows that Adolescent relationship disruptions are closely linked to
cyber victimization. Particularly, victims of cyberbullying reported greater emotions of isolation
and despair, as well as increasing loneliness from their parents and friends. Consequently, those
who were bullied online reported having fewer friends, social anxiety and having more emotional
and peer connection/trust issues. (Nixon, 2014).

o Psychological aspect

Bullying throughout adolescence is seen as a global public health issue affecting teenagers'
psychological development, which frequently lasts into adulthood (Maurya et al, 2022). As per
findings of Maurya et al (2022), with the prevalence of adolescents’ girls facing mental
disturbances higher than males, these victims of cyberbullying may experience low self-esteem,
psychological instability, and loneliness-related anxiety, which can end in depression and suicidal
thinking. Another finding of Mestre et al (2017) depict that adolescents who experienced online
bullying were more likely to turn to drugs or alcohol as a coping mechanism. Similarly,
cyberbullied victims manifest psychological disturbances like behavioral issues in which these
individuals often depict violence, perceived stress, sleep disturbances, anger and irritability says
Peled (2019).

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Recommendations for prevention

At school level

Schools play a major role in the anti-cyberbullying initiative whereby schools can promote and
organize programs like Bullying prevention and empathy training programs intended to address
the issue and develop a secure and counselling sessions encouraging learning environment for all
children. By assisting students and faculty in their awareness of cyberbullying, closely monitoring
students, implementing rules and consequences for any infractions, and placing restrictions on
undesirable behavior, these programs attempts to achieve this goal. (Mehari et al, 2018).

At parental level

Parents play a crucial role in preventing cyberbullying. According to Ang (2015), Parental
supervision is associated with a decrease in children's inappropriate or risky behavior along with
establishing a healthy bond with the children/adolescent through effective means of
communication. Similarly, by exercising control and establishing social media usage rules,
parents may help their children learn how to use technology responsibly (Chen et al, 2017).

At individual level

A special role in prevention is played by the young themselves who serves as both bullies and
victims. As per the findings of Mehari et al (2018), young people can take action to speak up for
themselves and spread awareness about the effects of cyberbullying. Also, Ang (2015) further
speaks about the role of youth in keeping an eye on one another, have open discussions, and
report any indications of potential cyberbullying.

Conclusion

Cyberbullying has been a persistent social problem in contemporary life and the availability of
cell phones, laptops, and the internet has made it an inevitable issue which requires considerable
amount of attention and preventive actions. This assignment highlighted the detailed report on the
global social issue of Cyberbullying and presented its impact on the victims commonly the young
adults and children who are more subjected to social media platforms. Cyberbullying is shown to
have impacted these victims profoundly in terms of their social, academic and psychological
development. Also, in this assignment, I have also mentioned some of the preventive measures

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that can be taken explaining the roles of parents, schools and the youth themselves against
cyberbullying for a better and healthier future generation.

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