Cyber Bullying as an Outcome of Social Media Usage: A Literature Review (Only Abstract)

Abstract

Most of the research on cyber bullying available on the internet is of foreign origin. Research studies on this constant on Indian population are required. Thus calls for a narrative review of the available literature in foreign as well as Indian context. This present study tried to meet this requirement by presenting a narrative review on cyber bullying construct literature. Electronic data bases like Eric, Proquest, google scholar, J-gate, Eric were used as the data sources. Literature in the form of research articles and reviews articles were searched the words with the exact key words “cyber bullying” and “Indian” in the title was selected for study and literature on related key words was strictly ignored. The literature included research articles citing the first recorded case of bullying to certain latest finding in this subject in recent times. The study found that the use of technology is in rise in Indian, with the Indian youth spending at least an hour or two on the social networking sites being venerable to cyber bullying and suffering in due course owing to poor awareness and bad implementation ofcyber laws. © 2018, Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. All rights reserved.