The Effects of Cyber Bullying on the Mental Health of Middle School-aged Youth

Bullying is a childhood problem for many people and is considered a serious problem. Campbell (2005) states Peterson (2001) and that bullying is "to abuse human beings by force or compulsion" (Campbell's qtd., 2005). Bullying is harmful and may occur without a reason. This is a quick solution to fill the bully and assert power (Campbell 2005). Bullying is a type of bullying that involves various ways to harass individuals. Bullying can be targeted to victims using anonymity by using instant messaging on the Internet or computer via websites such as Facebook and Twitter, text messages on mobile phones .

Bullying is a widespread health problem. This is to use technology to send cruel, insulting, or embarrassing things to other people. Unlike regular bullying, cyber bullying usually occurs outside school premises. Cyber ​​bullying usually starts around 9 to 14 years old, is harassed after the age of 14 or is considered sexual harassment due to the age of the actor (Aftab PowerPoint Communications, 2006). Upper, emotionally and physically.

Today's young people face a variety of terrible and shocking situations, but one of the newest and most uneasy situations is bullying. The number of young people who experienced cyber bullying is increasing and is estimated to occupy a worldwide proportion. Bullying occurs mainly among young people and young people between the ages of 14 and 26, but people of all ages may experience this situation. As technology becomes more complex and you have immediate access to information that may bring great benefit to our lives, means of using personal information, means of committing a cyber crime, even a means of hurting others There is a possibility to provide it. Especially cybercrime is bullying. Most young people think that this bully is a joke and are not aware that they have catastrophic effects on the victims.

Childhood and adolescent bullying have widespread impacts on the physical and mental health of bullied teens 1, 2. In this case, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and youth with homosexuality (LGBTQ) are subject to severe language bullying, physical bullying, cyber bullying 4-7. The universality and consequences of bullying in youths of 3, 8-10 LGBTQ are increasingly understood, but the successful efforts to solve LGBTQ bullying are behind schedule.