The New Year has arrived and here at NoBullying.com, that means one essential thing. It is time for Cyberbullying and Bullying Statistics 2014.
When gathering bullying statistics 2014, we always look at major polls published worldwide and covering a big number of participants, we always look at the major trends and shifts in cyberbullying and bullying worldwide.
Some of the key things we noticed when searching for bullying statistics 2014 are the following:
- Most Children showed more worry about Pornography and Violence shared on all social networks as well as pop-up ads and phishing.
- More children are showing knowledge and understanding of what cyberbullying and bullying entails, although a big percentage still expressed not knowing enough on how to fight it or prevent it.
- Less children are expressing feelings of low self esteem and bigger percentage of them are expressing the desire to remain survivors and winners in the battle against bullying and cyberbullying.
Check the Cyberbullying and bullying statistics 2014 we have gathered for you.
According to EU Kids Online, a poll conducted in February 2013 shows the following:
Pornographic content tops the ranking of risks named by children in relation to the internet (22% of risks mentioned first by children).
Violent and aggressive content is the second most common concern identified by children (18% of first mentioned risks).
Note: more than 10,000 youths were surveyed.
- 7 in 10 young people are victims of cyberbullying.
- 37% of them are experiencing cyberbullying on a highly frequent basis.
- 20% of young people are experiencing extreme cyberbullying on a daily basis.
- New research suggests that young males and females are equally at risk of cyberbullying.
- Young people found to be twice as likely to be cyber bullied on Facebook as on any other social network.
- 54% of young people using Facebook reported that they have experienced cyberbullying on the social network.
- Facebook, Ask.FM and Twitter found to be the most likely sources of cyberbullying, being the highest in traffic of all social networks.
- Cyberbullying found to have catastrophic effects upon the self-esteem and social lives of up to 70% of young people.
- An estimated 5.43 million young people in the UK have experienced cyberbullying, with 1.26 million subjected to extreme cyberbullying on a daily basis.
Facebook: of all youths polled, 75% of them use facebook and 54% of those experienced cyberbullying.
Youtube: of all youths polled, 66% use Youtube and of that number, 21% of that percentage experienced cyberbullying.
Twitter: of all youths polled, 43% use Twitter and 28% of them experience cyberbullying.
Ask.fm: of all youths polled, 36% use Ask.fm and 26% of them experienced cyberbullying.
Instagram: of all youths polled, 24% use instagram and 24 of those experienced cyberbullying.
Tumblr: of all youths polled, 24% use it and 22% of those experienced cyberbullying.
Myspace: of all youths polled 4% use it and of that,89% experienced cyberbullying.
Another Survey done by legal experts Slater and Gordon and the Anti-Bullying Alliance, reveals that over half of children and young people in England (55.2%) accept cyber-bullying as part of everyday life.
67% of children would turn to their parents if they were bullied online. However, 40% of parents do not know how to respond if their child is cyber-bullied or how to set up filters on computers, tablets and mobile phones that could protect their children.
49% of parents say that the amount of opportunities their child has to access the internet leaves them struggling to monitor online behaviour, with 51% saying this also makes them afraid for their child.
69% of teachers and 40% of young people said that more should be taught about cyber-bullying and online safety through the national curriculum. However, 43% of teachers said their school did not currently teach anything about cyberbullying and online safety. More than 30%of teachers said they didn’t have adequate knowledge to match the online behaviors of their pupils, with 44% saying they didn’t know how to respond to cyber-bullying.
The poll was carried out across 2200 parents, children and teachers by OnePoll in October 2013.
Cyberbullying Statistics 2014 and Internet Safety Statistics 2014 in United Kingdom
According to Anti-Bullying Alliance, nearly one in five (17%) of London children experience mean or cruel behavior online and a quarter of kids in the capital are witnessing the cyber-bullying of a classmate or friend.
Only 15% of parents think that their child is safe online.
47% of parents are concerned about their child being bullied online
Half of parents think their child may have been bullied online, 15% know this for certain.
44% of parents think their child may be a cyber-bully themselves and 13% have been told that their child is a cyber-bully.
65% of children often go online without any parental supervision.
26% spending four hours or more online every day.
53% of children go online in their own room.
23% of children who have directed a comment with cruel or abusive language to someone online consider it ‘mean’ to the person it was directed at, and just 9% consider that behavior to be cyber-bullying.
In addition, 15% think if someone was upset by a mean comment directed at them online, they would be ‘over-reacting’, 24% saying they would be shocked to have their comments perceived as cruel.
The numbers also show that when it comes to UK children, a poll from October 2013 shows that:
- 63% have a cell phone
- 45% are on Facebook
- 42% are on Instagram
- 11.5% have been the target of cyberbullying in the previous 30 days (boys: 6.8%; girls: 16.0%)
- 3.9% have cyber-bullied others in the previous 30 days (boys: 0.6%; girls: 6.9%)
- 38% of young people have been affected by cyberbullying.
- 31,599 children called ChildLine in 2011/12 about bullying.
- Almost half (46%) of children and young people say they have been bullied at school at some point in their lives.
- 38% of disabled children worried about being bullied.
- 18% of children and young people who worried about bullying said they would not talk to their parents about it.
According to Netsmartz, Internet Safety Statistics 2014 show that
93% of teens (12-17) go online while
75% of teens (12-17) have cell phones and teens between the age of 12 and 17 send and receive around 1500 text messages a month. As for Online Gaming,
27% of teens (12-17) play games with people they don’t know online.
On Sexting, 15% of cell-owning teens say they have received sexually suggestive and nude images of someone they know via text.
Bullying is a problem that is encountered in many schools. One out of three students is bullied during the school year according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. Bullying often causes physical and psychological symptoms in victims like headaches, stomach aches, depression, and anxiety. School bullying prevention programs are known to decrease bullying in schools up to 25 percent.
About 28 percent of students in grades 6-12 experience some form of bullying according to bullying statistics 2013. Over 30 percent of students admit to bullying classmates and peers. When an adult intervenes in a bullying incident, it stops within 10 seconds or more about 57 percent of the time. This is why addressing the problem often cuts down on bullying incidents that happen daily.
There are many different types of bullying. According to Hertz, Donato and Wright there is a strong correlation between bullying and suicide related behaviors. The relationship is often influenced by o factors like depression and delinquency. Those bullied by peers were more likely to think of suicide and even attempt it.
Bullying has many forms verbal, social, physical, and cyber bullying. Middle school students reports many different forms of bullying during the school years. About 44.2% of bullying is teasing which is often playing jokes and calling a child names. Over 43.3 percent of children have rumors and lies spread about them verbally or online. About 36.3 percent of children experience pushing and shoving in lines or class, 32.4%report hitting, shoving, and kicking by peers, and 29.2% have been left out or ignored by classmates.
About 28.5 percent of middle school students been threatened by peers and classmates and 27.4 report someone stealing their belongings as another type of bullying. Over 23.7 percent report sexual comments and gestures as another form of bullying.
Where does bullying occur many parents and teachers wonder about the location. Bullying takes place on school grounds and often on the bus. This is not the only place it occurs however ! Cyber bullying occurs on cell phones and online on social networks, boards, and through email. A study of middle school students reported that they were bullied about 29.3% in classrooms, 29.0% in the school hallways or near lockers, and23.4% in the cafeteria.
Other locations that school student were bullied were 19.5% of the time the gym or PE class, the bathroom 12.2%, and the playground or recess6.2% .. This study shows that bullying occurs in many locations where children gather to study, play, or hang out. Only between 20 to 30 percent of students that are bullied tell an adult or teacher about the incident.
Statistics on bullying 2013 are very broad. Adolescent girls are more likely to be victims as well as bullies than boys. It is related to a number of factors like low self esteem, anger, frustration, and other suicidal issues. Often cyber bullying comes about because of other problems in the child’s life like substance abuse, drugs, school performance issues, and delinquency.
Regular bullying and cyber bullying are believed to be linked to violence among youth, suicide and even murder. Over 77 percent of students have been bullied verbally, mentally, and physically. Each day about 160,000 students miss school because of bullying or because of their fear of being bullied. The sad fact is that every 7 minutes a child is bullied on the playground. Adult intervention is often 4%, peer or classmate intervention is 11%, and no intervention is 85%. This means that is more common for these incidents to be ignored.
The Bureau of Justice School Bullying and Cyber Bullying reports that bullying often leads to violence. About 87 percent of students say school shootings are motivated by the desire to get back at those who have hurt them. About 86 percent in this study cite bullying as the reason that kids turn to lethal violence. Some students believe that experiencing physical or emotional abuse at home can lead to similar behavior at school. About 61 percent linked school shootings with the perpetrator being physically abused at home. These are some of the statistics from their study.
Knowing about some of the statistics on bullying 2013 helps parents and teachers recognize the signs. Knowing the different forms of bullying helps adults formulate a plan. Verbal bullying often is when kids call each other names, tease, or play mean pranks. Physical bullying is hitting another person, shoving, kicking, tripping and spitting.
Social emotional bullying is when a child is left out of the group in activities in school or online in discussion groups and boards. Cyber bullying is using a mobile phone or the Internet to do harm to others. This can involve sending someone nasty emails or photos. Posting comments about someone online on social networks or even taking photos with a cell phone and texting the photos to different people.
The effects of bullying results in many problems for children, teens and college students. Many children have a change in eating and sleeping habits, and often have a drop in grades. Many kids that are bullied skip school, or drop out. These are just some of the effects of bullying.
Knowing the bullying statistics for 2013 gives parents, teachers, and other adults knowledge of the problem. It does not stop or resolve the problem that many boys and girls face every day at school or online. This problem affects all groups despite the race, sex, gender, religion, or nationality. Some statistics give higher rates for handicapped and LGBT youth.
Bullying statistics 2013 offer key points on what to look for in your child or at children in school. Knowing the types of bullying and where it occurs gives an adult the advantage. Remember statistics on bullying 2013 point to a problem that must be addressed to change things.
In our endeavor to gather the latest numbers related to cyberbullying and bullying statistics 2014, we are finding more knowledge about the bad aspects of this epidemic but less so about how to fight it, we encourage you to spread the word about the movement against bullying.
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