Cyberbullying or cyber aggression?: A review of existing definitions of cyber-based peer-to-peer aggression

Societies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 245-255

  Corcoran, Lucie ^a   Guckin, Conor Mc ^b   Prentice, Garry ^a  

^a DUBLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bullying; Cyber aggression; Cyber victim; Cyber victimization; Cyberbullying; Definitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85118127519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/soc5020245     Document Type: Article

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