@article{ref1,
title="Social media use and cyberbullying perpetration: a longitudinal analysis",
journal="Violence and gender",
year="2018",
author="Barlett, Christopher P. and Gentile, Douglas A. and Chng, Grace and Li, Dongdong and Chamberlin, Kristina",
volume="5",
number="3",
pages="191-197",
abstract="Social networking (e.g., blogging and social networking website use) frequency among adolescents has increased exponentially in the last decade. An unfortunate by-product of increased communication via the Internet is cyberbullying; however, there is a paucity of longitudinal research exploring the relationships between social network use and cyberbullying in an adolescent sample. The current study used a three-wave longitudinal study of over 3000 (at Wave 1) Singaporean youth to examine whether the relationship between Wave 1 social network use and Wave 3 cyberbullying perpetration was mediated by an increase in Wave 2 development of positive cyberbullying attitudes. <br><br>RESULTS using structural equation modeling showed support for this hypotheses: Wave 1 social networking use predicted Wave 2 positive cyberbullying attitudes 2 years later. Finally, Wave 2 cyberbullying attitudes predicted Wave 3 cyberbullying perpetration 1 year later. Overall, these results suggest that social networking can be used to harm others through the development of positive cyberbullying attitudes--a link that has received very little empirical attention.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2326-7836",
doi="10.1089/vio.2017.0047",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/vio.2017.0047"
}