In an article by the press agency Europa
Press
published on June 28 2012, which refers to a study performed by Microsoft among youths in the age range 8 to 17, it
is stated that 37% of Spanish youths suffer on-line bullying
through the Internet. This looks like a high figure, but it may depend on how bullying
is defined.
Reading the article, it appears that 17 per
cent of the polled declares having been addressed in an
unfriendly way, 13 per cent have been targets
of mockery and 19 per cent have felt
insulted. Also, 24% of the youth confess that they bully other
people.
Neither in the Europa Press article, nor in the
summary of the Microsoft study, is there a definition of unfriendly
behavior and the other forms of bullying. It appears that the
youths who answered the poll just considered it thus.
