title: Brief report: Cyberbullying perpetration and its associations  with socio-demographics, aggressive behaviour at school, and  mental health outcomes.
abstract: Relatively little is known about those who cyberbully others, especially in a UK context. We drew on data from 1144 young people aged 12-13 in eight English secondary schools to examine the prevalence of cyberbullying perpetration and its associations with sociodemographics, other behaviours, and health outcomes. Overall, 14.1% of respondents reported ever cyberbullying others with no significant differences by gender or socioeconomic status. Drawing on mixed-effects logistic regression models, first we found a strong, dose-response relationship between aggressive behaviour at school and cyberbullying others, suggesting that cyberbullying may not only be a facet of wider patterns of bullying but also of aggression more broadly. Second, cyberbullying others was associated with poorer quality of life and with psychological difficulties but not with peer/social problems or worse mental wellbeing. Longitudinal studies are needed to assess whether such associations are causal.
authors.affiliation: Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. FletcherA@cardiff.ac.uk
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.forename: Natasha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fitzgerald-Yau
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: Russell M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Viner
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bonell
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D058445:Bullying / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012574:Schools / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires