Cyberbullying in Schools, Workplaces, and Romantic Relationships

This volume brings together research on cyberbullying across contexts, age groups, and cultures to gain a fuller perspective of the prevalence and impact of electronic mistreatment on individual, group, and organizational outcomes. This is the first book to integrate research on cyberbullying across three contexts: schools, workplaces, and romantic relationships, providing a unique synthesis of lifespan contexts.
For each context, the expert chapter authors bring together three different ‘lenses’: existing research on the predictors and outcomes of cyberbullying within that context; a cross-cultural review across national borders and cultural boundaries; and a developmental perspective that examines age-related differences in cyberbullying within that context. The book closes by drawing commonalities across these different contexts leading to a richer understanding of cyberbullying as a whole and some possible avenues for future research and practice.
This is fascinating reading for researchers and upper-level students in social psychology, counseling, school psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, and developmental psychology, as well as educators and administrators.

Author Biography

Gary W. Giumetti is associate professor of psychology at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. Gary holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Psychology from Villanova University and a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Clemson University. His research focuses on fairness and employee well-being in the 21st century workplace.

Robin M. Kowalski is a Trevillian professor of psychology at Clemson University. She obtained her PhD in social psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests focus primarily on aversive interpersonal behaviors, most notably complaining, teasing, and bullying, with a particular focus on cyberbullying.