Highlights•Research on cyberbullying is plagued by inconsistent findings and exaggerated
claims.•To build a coherent body of knowledge, a consensual definition is important.• …

Cyberbullying victims fear that parents or other authority figures will remove their technology,
the means by which victimisation is occurring. To understand the importance of studying …

Broadly understood as repeated, intentional, and aggressive behaviors facilitated by digital
technologies, cyberbullying has been identified as a significant public health concern in …

Background: In order to support efforts to prevent bullying, more needs to be understood
about students' own explanations of bullying in their everyday school lives. In-depth …

Research on school bullying has its roots in the field of developmental and educational
psychology, and appeals to the need for a theoretical and methodological widening in order …

In this article, we investigate the power of prevailing definitions within the research field of
cyberbullying. We address how these definitions, mostly deriving from developmental …

Background Common definitions of bullying, employed in research and public policy alike,
are generally based on adult-imposed categories. To account for students' needs in school …

Higher education requires access to Information and communication technologies (ICT's).
This exposure and access to ICT, coupled with the excessive usage of social media, has …

Robert Thornberg ullying has over the years been examined and explained in individual as
well as in contextual terms, and from a wide range of different theories and methods. A …

A set of criteria defining bullying behaviour (an intention to harm, repetition, and power
imbalance) has been applied to enable generalisation of research findings. However, few …