Relational And Cyber Aggression Among Adolescents (Essay Sample)

Relational and cyber aggression among adolescents
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The study is aimed to investigate the role of certain personality traits which include behavioral activation system (BAS) callous-unemotional traits and emotional regulation in the association between proactive and reactive relational regression (RA) and cyberbullying (CB). The present study examined personality characteristics involving the predictors of relational and cyber aggression In addition to moderators in bidirectional models between the aggressive forms. It is hypothesized that low cognitive reappraisal is found to uniquely predict involvement in CB (Williams, K. R., & Guerra, N. G. 2007). Hence adolescents who have difficulty in Emotional Regulation (EmR) find it easier to bully online.
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Adolescence is a crucial development period which is marked by the increase in both relational and cyber aggression. Adolescents can use indirect aggressive forms to a greater extent as their social skills are sufficiently developed to enable concrete forms of attack. Teenagers use most of their time on the internet. As a result, they may be exposed to cyber bullying which is the international act performed by electronic forms against victims who are not able to defend themselves (Banny, A. M., & Prinstein, M. J. 2011).There is a significant association between the traditional cyber aggressions, for instance, CB is considered as a form of aggression which involves the use of electronic devices. The CB and RA contain some similarities, for example, they both occur in the context of relationship difficulties such as friendship break ups and they both refer to the international harm to other as a result of manipulating peer relationships through the spread of rumor or social group exclusion.
Despite the similarities, CB differs from traditional forms of aggression in many ways including RA, for instance, the degree of anonymity afforded by online environment provides the CB with unique characteristics when compared to aggressive forms. CB majorly depend on technological expertise, and it reaches a large audience rapidly hence it create a greater impact on the victim. In addition to that CB is an indirect bullying as the perpetrator remains unknown. On the other hand, RA can be indirect or direct bullying (Gross, J. J., & John, O. P. 2003). Further online aggression is distinct from traditional as it is more reciprocal as some individuals can alter their roles from being a victim to being an aggressor compared to the natural assault.
The forms of aggressive behavior involve different characters which may be antisocial personality and defiance in emotion regulation. The previous studies support the bidirectional links between various forms of traditional that is physical, verbal and social aggression. Most studies suggest that cyber assault may have old-style appeal to adolescents who are already socially manipulated and aggressive to face the interactions. Cyberspace also provides an additional medium through which the existing energetic youth can act. Notably understanding the motivation behind aggressive actions will assist to ensure that appropriate in...