Problematic internet use (piu) and cyberbulling in adolescence. Victimization, risky behaviour and perception of phenomenon among peers: a research

Abstract

In this article the problematic internet use and its possible relation with cyberbullism and bullism among adolescents are described in a frame of social transformations. In the work the impulsive dimension and the adolescent mental functioning is discussed in the at risk behaviors by an evolutionary, social and psychobiological approach. The constructions of attachment and resilience were used to better enlighten the evolutionary issue in adolescent
socio-relational field. Also, the outcome of an action research in a secondary school is offered, to intercept the presence of felt cyberbullism and the representations of the students about the on line relationships among peer, and more the teachers perceptions about the phenomenon of cyberbullism and the representation of cyberbully. In the ambit of a cyberbullism prevention scholastical project a not standardized questionnaire was administered to a sample of students of the school and, in a systemic viewpoint, different focus groups are leaded with the adolescents and with the teachers. At the end a restitution of the results was done in the groups and a training of peer educators was started.