Bullying Doesn't End With High School, A Study Reveals 1 year
ago Study Pushes New Information During National Anti-Bullying
Awareness Month Research conducted by two professors at Indiana
State University shows that bullying and cyberbullying doesn’t
stop at the end of high school, but continues into college years
as well. The study, conducted by assistant professor of
counseling Bridget Roberts-Pittman and professor of educational
and school psychology Christine MacDonald, found that almost 22%
of college students reported being cyberbullied while 15%
reported being bullied. The report defines cyberbullying as an
occurrence when new technology such as social networking, text
messaging or instant messaging is used to harass others with
harmful text or images. Up until now, studies on bullying have
only looked at elementary, junior high and high school
occurrences. In a recent study released by the Josephson
Institute of Ethics in Los Angeles, more than 43,000 teens
between the ages of 15 and 18 attending pub