Cyberbullying: Who Are the Victims? A Comparison of Victimization in Internet Chatrooms and Victimization in School

Journal of Media Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-36

  Katzer, Catarina ^a   Fetchenhauer, Detlef ^a,b   Belschak, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cyberbullying; online victimization; victimization; virtual aggression

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650109100     PISSN: 18641105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105.21.1.25     Document Type: Article

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