Over and above Gender Differences in Cyberbullying: Relationship of Gender Typicality to Cyber Victimization and Perpetration in Adolescents |
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Authors: | Emma F. Jackson Kay Bussey Nora Trompeter |
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Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia emma.jackson3@hdr.mq.edu.auhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4973-1256;3. Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6806-0892;4. Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5800-8679 |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT The present study used a unique measure of self-perceived gender typicality to better examine the association of gender with cyber victimization and perpetration. Participants were 297 adolescent males and females recruited from independent schools in grade 8 (Mage = 13.8) and grade 10 (Mage = 15.8) who completed a self-report survey. Multiple regression analyses revealed that only for males, high other-gender typicality and low same-gender typicality were associated with high cyber victimization, but when same-gender typicality was high there was no association. Independent associations of same- and other-gender typicality with cyber perpetration were present only for males. Findings highlight that the importance of considering same- and other-gender typicality for adolescent boys’ engagement in cyberbullying. |
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Keywords: | Gender differences gender typicality cyberbullying adolescence victimization perpetrators |
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