@article{ref1,
title="Traditional and cyber bullying/victimization among adolescents: examining their psychosocial profile through latent profile analysis",
journal="International journal of bullying prevention",
year="2019",
author="Antoniadou, Nafsika and Kokkinos, Constantinos M. and Fanti, Kostas A.",
volume="1",
number="2",
pages="85-98",
abstract="Although increasingly more studies investigate the relationship of cyber and traditional bullying/victimization, it is unclear whether the phenomena are distinct. The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles that Greek Junior High school students engage in cyber and traditional bullying/victimization incidents, as well as the psychosocial and emotional profiles of the students that are classified into each participant role. Overall, 1097 Greek Junior High school students (mean age = 13.95, 51% girls) completed a self-report questionnaire about cyber and traditional bullying/victimization, empathy, psychopathic traits, online disinhibition, social skills, social anxiety, and peer relations. Latent profile analysis indicated four distinct groups of participants (&quot;uninvolved,&quot; &quot;bullies,&quot; &quot;victims,&quot; &quot;bully/victims&quot;). ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis analyses showed that &quot;uninvolved&quot; students had the most adaptive profile (low scores in psychopathic traits and online disinhibition and high in social skills), while students who frequently bullied both online and offline (&quot;bullies&quot;) were the least functional of the sample (e.g., high scores in psychopathic traits and low in empathy and social skills) and differed on several characteristics from those classified as &quot;bully/victims.&quot; Finally, victims had a poor psychosocial profile (e.g., high social anxiety and poor social relations). These findings confirm that cyber aggression is part of a general bullying/victimization pattern and that students are most effectively classified based on their behavior and not the context of manifestation. <br><br>FINDINGS can contribute to the ongoing debate on the similarities/differences of cyber and traditional bullying/victimization, as well as their simultaneous occurrence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2523-3653",
doi="10.1007/s42380-019-00010-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42380-019-00010-0"
}