Exploring the Relationship Between Cyberbullying and Technology Addiction in Adolescents.
Aysel Topan, Siğnem Anol, Yeliz Taşdelen and 1 others
PMID 39345215WHAT IT FOUND
In 556 Turkish adolescents, higher technology addiction scores were weakly linked to more cyber victimization and cyberbullying.
Sending inappropriate videos, receiving humiliating comments, and encountering threats were linked to higher victimization scores.
Key findings
0143.2% (240) of adolescents had low dependence, 38.5% (214) moderate dependence, 12.2% (68) high dependence, 1.6% (9) very high dependence, and 4.5% (25) were not dependent.
02Technology addiction scores were weakly positively correlated with cyber victimization and cyberbullying scores.
03Sending inappropriate videos, experiencing humiliating expressions, sending inappropriate messages or videos to friends, and encountering threatening situations were significantly predictive of cyber victimization total scores.
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What it does not show
The study was done in the centre of one city in Turkey, so the findings may not apply to other places. Participants were selected by convenience sampling, so the sample may not represent adolescents more broadly. Data were self-reported, which can introduce recall bias. The cross-sectional design cannot show whether technology addiction came before cyberbullying or victimization. Adolescents with disabilities were excluded, so the findings may not apply to them. The paper reports some subscale reliability values as low as 0.613, so measurement may vary by subscale.
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that technology addiction causes cyberbullying or victimization. The study measured both at one time, used self-report and convenience sampling, and the paper states causality cannot be inferred.