Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padua, Italy.
Scand J Psychol. 2020 Feb;61(1):22-29. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12517. Epub 2019 Jan 28.
Research on cyberbullying has been growing worldwide, with much of the focus on the characteristics of perpetrators and targets of cyberbullying. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid on bystanders of cyber-attacks. This study presents the Italian validation of a newly developed self-report scale that measures different forms of participation in cyberbullying, namely cyberbullying, cybervictimization, cyber-defending and cyber-passive bystanding. We used responses from 561 young adolescents (289 girls; mean age = 12 years, 1 month; SD = 9 months) attending middle schools in Italy. A 16-item scale was developed paralleling the content of an already existing scale that measures young adolescents' behavior in traditional bullying. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the four-dimensional structure of the scale and the four subscale's scores showed acceptable levels of internal consistency. Multigroup analyses demonstrated full scalar invariance of the scale across gender groups. Finally, each behavior in the electronic context was positively correlated with its counterpart in the school context, suggesting certain stability across contexts. It is concluded that the scale may be a first, promising attempt to measure different youths' behavior during cyberbullying episodes.
网络欺凌的研究在全球范围内不断增加，其中大部分关注的是网络欺凌者和受害者的特征。近年来，越来越多的人开始关注网络攻击的旁观者。本研究呈现了一种新的自我报告量表的意大利验证，该量表旨在测量不同形式的参与网络欺凌行为，即网络欺凌、网络受害、网络防御和网络被动旁观。我们使用了来自意大利中学的 561 名青少年（289 名女生；平均年龄=12 岁 1 个月；SD=9 个月）的回答。该量表由 16 个项目组成，与已经存在的一种测量青少年在传统欺凌中的行为的量表内容平行。验证性因素分析支持了该量表的四维度结构，且四个分量表的得分显示出可接受的内部一致性水平。多组分析表明，该量表在性别组之间具有完全的标度不变性。最后，电子环境中的每种行为都与学校环境中的对应行为呈正相关，这表明在不同环境中存在一定的稳定性。综上所述，该量表可能是首次尝试测量不同青少年在网络欺凌事件中的行为，具有一定的前景。
