Cyberbullying from the Perspective of Teenagers and their Parents

Abstract

The goal of the study was to verify the awareness of the level of cyberbullying and threat related to it by teenagers and their parents. The research was carried out among grammar school students and their parents by means of the author’s questionnaire. It was established that the level of awareness of cyberbullying is higher among children than among their parents. Moreover, more than half of the pupil respondents revealed they had been its victims while one third – its culprits. The level of insecurity related to cyberbullying also revealed to be higher among the young people than among their parents. The largest difference was observed in relation to identity theft and unflattering comments. Statistically significant differences were also related to such forms of cyberbullying as: harassment through frequent phone calls, creating websites in order to ridicule and humiliate another person.