A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cyber-Victimization and Educational Outcomes for Adolescents

Adolescents' Internet use is increasingly mobile, private, and unsupervised, which raises concerns given that the Internet increasingly serves as a medium for experiencing victimization. Although it is widely recognized that in-person victimization has a deleterious effect on adolescents'...

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Published in:Review of educational research 2017-04, Vol.87 (2), p.283-308
Main Authors: Gardella, Joseph H., Fisher, Benjamin W., Teurbe-Tolon, Abbie R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Adolescents
Attendance
Bullying
Computer Mediated Communication
Correlation
Education
Effect Size
Internet
Literature Reviews
Meta Analysis
Outcomes of Education
School attendance
Search Strategies
Statistical Analysis
Systematic review
Teenagers
Victimization
Victims
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Summary:Adolescents' Internet use is increasingly mobile, private, and unsupervised, which raises concerns given that the Internet increasingly serves as a medium for experiencing victimization. Although it is widely recognized that in-person victimization has a deleterious effect on adolescents' educational outcomes, the extent to which cyber-victimization has similar effects is less well known. This systematic review and meta-analysis offers a synthesis of the relationship between cyber-victimization and educational outcomes of adolescents aged 12 to 17, including 25 effect sizes from 12 studies drawn from a variety of disciplines. A series of random-effects meta-analyses using robust variance estimation revealed associations between cyber-victimization and higher school attendance problems (r = .20) and academic achievement problems (r = .14). Results did not differ by provided definition, publication status, reporting time frame, gender, race/ethnicity, or average age. Implications for future research are discussed within context of theoretical, critical, and applied discussions.
ISSN:0034-6543
1935-1046
DOI:10.3102/0034654316689136