Bansal Suhans, Garg Naval, Singh Jagvinder, Van Der Walt Freda
University School of Management and Entrepreneurship (USME), Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India.
Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Front Psychol. 2024 Jan 15;14:1279234. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1279234. eCollection 2023.
Cyberbullying has attracted the world's attention, and therefore researchers across the world have contributed to the literature on cyberbullying and mental health. Amongst others, they have conducted bibliometric analyses and associated cyberbullying with various factors but have not determined the impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health. Hence, the aim of this study was to conduct bibliometric analyses of cyberbullying and mental health to analyze the academic performance of the literature on impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health; and to propose future research avenues to make further contributions to this field of study.
Spreadsheets and VOSviewer were used to conduct the bibliometric analysis. The data were extracted from the SCOPUS database which provided an extensive collection of data and journals.
Having explored the top active countries publishing on the impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health and the academic performance of such research articles by means of a qualitative bibliometric analysis, the results revealed that this research topic is still to be researched extensively. The study also suggests countries/regions where this research topic can be explored further, as well as possible journals for publication of research results, and further studies to be conducted.
The literature presents a fragmented view on the impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health. Studies on cyberbullying are limited for the reasons as discussed in this article. Hence, bibliometric analysis was conducted to analyze the performance of academic literature on the impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health; the academic performance of research articles on cyberbullying and mental health; and to make proposals toward a future research agenda.
网络欺凌已引起全球关注，因此世界各地的研究人员都为有关网络欺凌和心理健康的文献做出了贡献。其中，他们进行了文献计量分析，并将网络欺凌与各种因素相关联，但尚未确定网络欺凌对人们心理健康的影响。因此，本研究的目的是对网络欺凌和心理健康进行文献计量分析，以分析关于网络欺凌对人们心理健康影响的文献的学术表现；并提出未来的研究途径，为该研究领域做出进一步贡献。
使用电子表格和VOSviewer进行文献计量分析。数据从SCOPUS数据库中提取，该数据库提供了广泛的数据和期刊集合。
通过定性文献计量分析，探索了在网络欺凌对人们心理健康影响方面发表文章最多的活跃国家以及此类研究文章的学术表现，结果表明该研究主题仍有待广泛研究。该研究还指出了可以进一步探索该研究主题的国家/地区，以及可能发表研究结果的期刊，以及有待开展的进一步研究。
文献对网络欺凌对人们心理健康的影响呈现出碎片化的观点。如本文所讨论的，关于网络欺凌的研究因各种原因受到限制。因此，进行文献计量分析以分析关于网络欺凌对人们心理健康影响的学术文献的表现；关于网络欺凌和心理健康的研究文章的学术表现；并对未来的研究议程提出建议。
