Department of Police Administration, Joongbu University, Geumsan 32713, Korea.
Department of Aviation Security Protection, Kwangju Women's University, Gwangju 62396, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 25;18(19):10085. doi: 10.3390/ijerph181910085.
Because of the implementation of social distancing measures following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face interaction has plummeted, which has resulted in the prolific use of social networking services (SNS) and increased activity in the cyberspace environment. This is especially true for teenagers and young adults with the shift to online classes in the education sector, which has increased the chances of being exposed to cyberbullying. This study attempts to determine a strategy for counteracting cyberbullying in the post-COVID-19 era by identifying the factors that have contributed toward greater aggression by adolescents in South Korea in 2020 when the spread of COVID-19 was at its height. To achieve this, we employed the Cyberbullying Circumstance Analysis dataset from the Korea Communications Commission for the time frame of between 2019 and 2020, with 4779 and 4958 participants, respectively. The causes and effects that led to cyberbullying were investigated using binary logistic regression analysis. By reviewing the research data targeted towards Korean adolescents, our analysis found that the average age of those who engage in cyberbullying decreased in 2020 compared to 2019. In addition, cyberbullying awareness at school and the school's capability of controlling it influenced the number of cyberbullies from a statistical grounding, which could be found only in the 2020 dataset. An approach to establishing policies in schools to contain preemptive measures and increase cyberbullying awareness has been proposed to prevent such mishaps in the post-COVID-19 era.
由于 COVID-19 大流行期间实施了社交距离措施，面对面互动大幅减少，这导致社交网络服务 (SNS) 的大量使用和网络环境中的活动增加。对于青少年和年轻人来说，这种情况尤其如此，因为教育部门转向在线课程，这增加了他们遭受网络欺凌的机会。本研究试图通过确定导致韩国青少年在 2020 年 COVID-19 传播高峰期攻击性增强的因素，来确定在后 COVID-19 时代对抗网络欺凌的策略。为此，我们使用了韩国通信委员会在 2019 年至 2020 年期间的网络欺凌情况分析数据集，分别有 4779 名和 4958 名参与者。我们使用二元逻辑回归分析研究了导致网络欺凌的原因和影响。通过审查针对韩国青少年的研究数据，我们的分析发现，与 2019 年相比，2020 年参与网络欺凌的青少年的平均年龄有所下降。此外，学校的网络欺凌意识和控制能力从统计学角度影响了网络欺凌者的数量，这只能在 2020 年的数据集中找到。我们提出了在学校建立政策的方法，以遏制预防措施和提高网络欺凌意识，以防止在后 COVID-19 时代发生此类事件。
