A Systematic Literature Review on Characteristics of Cyberbullying

Abstract

Traditional bullying is a well-known global phenomenon. The rapid development of technology and technological sophistication has led to the emergence of bullying into the virtual world, known as cyberbullying. Numerous studies have covered the areas of cyberbullying, especially on the characteristics of cyberbullying. However, there are many characteristics of cyberbullying that have been discussed by many researchers, but they are yet to be covered in one complete paper. This study aims to determine the characteristics of cyberbully by conducting a systematic literature review on articles that differentiate it from traditional bullying. This study adopts the PRISMA flowchart and the table of analysis to compare cyberbullying characteristics among 39 authors. The researcher has established through comparison on characteristics of cyberbullying that the characteristics listed in the table have an influential role in cyberbullying, which differentiates it from traditional bullying. The analyses results inspire in generating cyberbullying characteristics, known as anonymity, publicity, physical distance, lack of supervision, no escape, and availability to access anytime and anywhere.