By: Margaret Jackson, Wanda Cassidy and Karen Brown, Simon Fraser University

Journal:
In Education: Special Issue on Technology and Social Media, Part I, 2009, 15(2), 68-82.

Abstract: Cyber-bullying increasingly is becoming a problem for students, educators and policy makers. In this paper, we consider cyber-bullying as a form of relational aggression; that is, behaviour designed to damage, harm or disrupt friendship or inter-personal relationships through covert means. We draw on the findings from a study of students in grades 6 through 9, conducted in five schools, in a large ethnically diverse metropolitan region of British Columbia, Canada, to demonstrate the inter-connection between cyber-bullying and relational aggression…

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