The attached references will hopefully deepen the characterization of cyberbullying. The first is good in the exact definition of cyberbullying. The second gives real sad stories, about cyberbullying, which ended with tragic losses. 

I think your research is a valuable service to humanity. My regards.

http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/what_is_cyberbullying_exactly.html

http://nobullying.com/six-unforgettable-cyber-bullying-cases/

We have been looking into this area in the School of Education at Trinity College Dublin for some years past. I did a study with Mona O' Moore in 2010 with about 3, 000 Irish secondary school students (it's on here), using a questionnaire adapted from one used by Peter Smith in the UK. You should probably contact my colleague Dr Conor Mc Guckin, whose current knowledge in this area outstrips my own - very recently, he's been involved in pan-European research projects into cyber-bullying, and supervised a PhD on cyber-bullying. Many of Conor's papers on cyber-bullying are uploaded to this site, and he's a very helpful man.I can recommend 'The Coping with Cyberbullying Questionnaire: Development of a New Measure' by Fabio Sticca, Katja Machmutow, Ariane Stauber, Sonja Perren, Benedetta Emanuela Palladino, Annalaura Nocentini, Ersilia Menesini, Lucie Corcoran and Conor Mc Guckin, which is on here. I should also say that Conor and I are very open to international collaboration, so if we can link in with what you're doing over in Argentina, we'd be glad to. Good luck!

Students perceive and define cyberbullying based on five cyberbullying criteria (imbalance of power, intention, repetition, anonymity, and publicity/privacy) and four types of cyberbullying behaviour (written-verbal, visual, exclusion, and impersonation).

A quali-quanti approach was used consisting of focus groups and a questionnaire... 

http://www.kirj.ee/public/trames_pdf/2012/issue_4/trames-2012-4-323-343.pdf

I don't know if you can read french but if so, there is this article which may interest you:

Arsène, M., & Raynaud, J. P. (2014). Cyberbullying (ou cyber harcèlement) et psychopathologie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent: état actuel des connaissances [Cyberbullying and child and adolescent psychopathology: Current state of knowledge]. Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, 62(4), 249-256.

I hope it can help.

Thanks you all for the interested links. These are very useful for my research.

Thanks Nizar for your human and sincerely opinion about bullying and cyberbullying studies.

Thanks Krishnan for the link of the research which used two kind of methodology for the research of this phenomenon.

Thanks Morgane, I do not read or speak french (that is not good because I have three French great-grandparents ) but I love french psychoanalysis. The perspective of the psychopathology that involve bullying and cyberbullying, sounds to me like a french tradition in the psychology field. Is a very useful and important point of view in the research of these phenomena.

Regards from Argentina!! 

Dear Stephen, thanks for your opening and collaborative attitude. I really appreciate. I read all the articles and papers of Peter K. Smith published here. And I look for some of them that are not completely loaded in RG. He is a great researcher who made and makes a very important contribution on this topic. I enjoy and admire his transcultural and international studies.

I cannot find the cyberbullying questionnaire used by Peter Smith in the UK. Perhaps Dr Conor Mcguckin, can give me the irish version. I read all his contribution too. And all yours contributions too. Work together in a transcultural study sounds magic and wonderful for me. Thanks!!!! 

I am going to send a message to Dr Conor Mc Guckin, looking for his help.

I stay thinking in a transcultural study Ireland - Argentina.

Best regards from the south of América!!!

That sounds fantastic, Silvana. If you like, I could get a copy of the version of the questionnaire that we used in O' Moore & Minton study, as Conor was not involved in that one. However, and just to warn you, it was adapted / designed in 2008, it was not particularly carefully standardised (it was a very exploratory study, after all), and was very much focussed on the cyber-bullying issues of the day. Conor will certainly have better and more recent ones for you to use. It would be great to do some work together! 

Another element to consider here is the fluidity of cyberbullying.  We're finding in our lab that what is called "cyberbullying" often does NOT fit the "bullying" rubric very well. Also, the behaviors used to hurt others in a digital environment can change very rapidly.  For this reason, seeking a validated questionnaire or measure is not always the best approach - we tweak our measure every six months, at least, to reflect new trends and new behaviors.  A measure that takes a year or two to validate is already out of date.

We really need to re-conceptualize digital behaviors that are cruel and impactful towards others.  Some are bullying, some have stable characteristics that don't change much, but others change dramatically and may be very cruel while still lacking bullying characteristics.

Finally, we're finding a great deal of digital sexual harassment in several different forms and there is no measure of "cyberbullying" that I know of that takes that into account.  

I'd suggest doing some qualitative work locally, scanning what others are doing, and putting together the most relevant measure yourself for these reasons.  What kids do to each other online is often very local in nature.  

Morning, 

Thanks for the very kind comments Stephen  :-)

Drop me an email ... [email protected] 

Conor  :-)

Dear Elizabeth, thanks for share your experience in this field. I am interested in the work of your lab. ¿How do you do the measure of cyberbullying or cyber violence? ¿Do you study cyberbullying or digital violence? Which conceptual framework do you use? A lot of questions!!! I am sorry.

I am going to explore your work on RG.

Best regards!!

Dear Conor, THANKS!!!! I am going to drop you a mail now!!!

Dear Silvana,

There is a researcher at ITSON (Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, México) who has been working with bullying in primary and secondary schools. He has several articles and has validated instruments

His name: Dr. Ángel Valdés Cuervo

His e-mail is

[email protected]

Good Luck!!

Silvia Aquino

Thank you very much Silvia!!! 

Silvana - just wondering how we can co-operate in this area? Please let me know. 

Hi Stephen!!! Look at your messages here in RG.  And let me know. Thanks again!!! 

Dear Silvana,

If you’re interested in cyberbullying, maybe you'd like to share your research during the 1st interdisciplinary conference on Cyber Security and Internet Safety conference in Prague, 5-7 May 2016. It’s a part of a global project on Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century, based in Oxford. Conference papers will be published by Inter-Disciplianry Press in Oxford.

Details are available on 

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/fears-and-anxieties/research-streams/cyber-security-and-internet-safety/call-for-presentations/

Deadline for abstract submissions: 27 November 2015.

Good luck and all the best, magda

Thanks Magda!!!

Dear Silvana,

You can contact Angel Valdes Cuervo from Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, México. He has published several articles about bullying and I think he is working on cyberbullyng now. His email  [email protected] 

Good luck!

Silvia Aquino