Abstract

The article focuses on the contentious relation between cyberbullying and physical, verbal, and relational bullying. Drawing on items from the Olweus questionnaire, the study used confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling, and latent factors of bullying were fitted to the data. Different background variables were related to cyberbullying and traditional bullying factors. The results revealed high correlations between physical, verbal, and relational bullying. While the relations between cyberbullying and physical and verbal bullying were modest to moderate, a substantial correlation between cyberbullying and relational bullying was observed (.69). Further, it was noted that the level of anxiety had a stronger relation with the cyberbullying factor, while number of friends was similarly related to all four bullying factors. The implications of the high relation between cyber and relational bullying, as well as their similar association with the covariates, were discussed.

摘要

本文重点讨论网络欺凌与身体，语言和关系欺凌之间的有争议的关系。利用Olweus调查表中的项目，该研究使用了验证性因素分析和结构方程模型，并且将欺凌的潜在因素与数据进行了拟合。不同的背景变量与网络欺凌和传统欺凌因素有关。结果显示，身体，语言和关系欺凌之间存在高度相关性。虽然网络欺凌与身体和言语欺凌之间的关系适度至中等，但观察到网络欺凌与关系欺凌之间存在实质性关联（.69）。此外，有人指出，焦虑程度与网络欺凌因素有更强的关系，而朋友的数量与所有四个欺凌因素类似。