Cyberbullying is a burgeoning topic for researchers worldwide. Indeed, a quick search on PsycINFO, ERIC, and MEDLINE/PubMed revealed that between 2010 and 2014, there were 1,144 articles published in peer-reviewed journals; between 2015 and 2019, there were 2,249 articles published, with 910 of them published in 2019. Even with this increased focus, the question of whether cyberbullying is a unique form of bullying is debated (e.g., studies by Mehari et al. [1] and Olweus [2]). In fact, a large body of research suggests that very few youth experience only cyberbullying, and that there is a high degree of overlap between cybervictimization and in-person victimization [3, 4]. Despite this, some researchers argue that certain aspects of cyberbullying (e.g., pervasive nature, capacity for an unlimited audience, potential for anonymous perpetration, and severity of privacy violation) set cyberbullying apart [2, 5, 6]. However, given the high degree of overlap, research that explores cybervictimization without considering co-occurring in-person victimization must be interpreted with caution...
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