Almost one child in six is cyberbullied, finds WHO report • FRANCE 24 English

Almost one child in six is cyberbullied, finds WHO report • FRANCE 24 English

The schoolyard bully is increasingly becoming a cyber bully a new study from the World Health Organization finds online harassment among adolescents is on the rise magnified by the increase in their digital interactions about one in six adolesent say that they have been Cyber Bullied once or twice in the last couple of

Months and here we can see that there’s a there’s not much of a of a gender difference the study used data from 44 countries and regions across Europe Central Asia and Canada researchers surveyed more than a quar million kids aged 11 to 15 years old for boys cyber

Bullying peaked at age 11 for girls age 13 and these kids now spend up to 6 hours a day online but researchers point to another cause as well the co pandemic during Co they ended up spending even more time on their electronic devices as all the schooling has happened there all

The interaction with friends has happened there bullying inside schools has declined over the past decade as cyber bullying surged social media companies such as meta have beefed up child safety features recently in an effort to limit harassment and exposure to harmful content but the who says there needs to be more education around

The dangers of cyber bullying as well as an increased investment in peer violence monitoring

Some 16 percent of children aged 11 to 15 worldwide were cyberbullied in 2022, up from 13 percent four years ago, a WHO Europe report covering 44 countries said on Wednesday.
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