Title

Awareness and resilience among Indian adolescents on cyberbullying

Authors

Albeenasiril Marianathan¹, Theranirajan Ethiraj², Shankar Shanmugam Rajendran^3,*, Venkatesh Madhan Kumar⁴, Anbalagan Marudan⁵, Jayalakshmi Lakshmanan¹ & Geetha Rajamoorthy¹

Affiliation

¹Department of Psychiatric Nursing, College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, Chennai, The TN Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ²Department of Pediatrics, Madras Medical College, The TN Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ³Department of Pediatric Nursing, College of Nursing, Madras Medical College, The TN Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ⁴Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Madras Medical College, The TN Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ⁵Department of Child Health Nursing, Madras Medical College, the TN Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Albeenasiril Marianathan - E - mail: alexander.siril@gmail.com
Theranirajan Ethiraj - E - mail: deanmmc@tn.gov.in
Shankar Shanmugam Rajendran - E - mail: shankarshaki@yahoo.com
Venkatesh Madhan Kumar - E - mail: vvmk75@gmail.com
Anbalagan Maruda - E - mail: anbalagan.avi@gmail.com
Jayalakshmi Lakshmanan - E - mail: gopikabrij2820@gmail.com
Geetha Rajamoorth - E - mail: geethaperumal09@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received March 1, 2025; Revised March 31, 2025; Accepted March 31, 2025, Published March 31, 2025

Abstract

Cyberbullying is prevalent among adolescents. This often occurs through online harassment on social media. Therefore, it is of interest to assess the impact of cognizance sessions on adolescents' awareness and its coping strategies. Hence, 160 adolescents were divided into experimental and control groups using a quasi-experimental design. Results indicated significant improvements in the experimental group's awareness and coping scores after educational sessions. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of such interventions, emphasizing the need for further research with larger samples.

Keywords

Cyberbullying, adolescents, cognizance sessions, coping strategies, mental health

Citation

Marianathan et al. Bioinformation 21(3): 334-338 (2025)

Edited by

Ritik Kashwani

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.