Bullying in Italy: It affects up to 20 percent of children under 11.

BULLYING IN ITALY

Furthermore, according to data presented by the Sapienza University of Rome, many young people they are convinced that it is right to throw insults across the web, as if the Internet incorporated this function and this language. At the same time, 71 percent believe there are no negative consequences for injuries, whether bullying or otherwise, online, even forgetting tragic news stories, such as Tiziana Cantone who killed herself because of the shame she suffered on the web. One, and not the only victim of this infernal and destructive mechanism, the greatest waste of technology and life that is being consumed among the new generations. So much so that we feel the need, with a certain dose of pompous rhetoric, to celebrate the Safer Internet Day, or World Internet Safety Day.

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VICTIMS OF BULLYING UNDER 11

It is frightening to think that in the 11 year age group the victims of cyberbullying They account for 17,2% of males and 21,1% of females. According to the Ministry of Health, 13-year-olds account for 12,9% of boys and 18,4% of girls; 15-year-olds account for 9,2% of males and 11,4% of females.

Unfortunately, the age of onset is decreasing; in some cases, the first episodes occur as early as 5-6 years of age, affecting almost 20 percent of children under 11, i.e., very young children who often suffer in silence.

WHERE IS IT MOST FREQUENT? BULLYING

According to data from the Surveillance of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children – HBSC Italy 2022, acts of Bullying Especially among children between the ages of 11 and 13 and among girls. Cyberbullying is on the rise among both girls and boys between the ages of 11 and 13. As age increases, both phenomena decrease.

According to the Ministry of Health – the phenomenon It originates mainly in the school environment.

And according to ISTAT data for 2021, it is primarily middle school students who have witnessed or learned about this type of behavior (11,7%, compared to 7,9% of upper secondary school students). Furthermore, the highest percentage is recorded among girls, at 11,3% compared to 7,6% of boys. The survey also shows that the main victims are boys who report coming from poor families and who perform poorly at school.

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BULLYING AND CYBERBULLYING

Ma How can we explain the spread of a phenomenon that seemed to be limited to a minority of troublemakers? First new technologies weigh heavily, through anonymous forms of dialogue on the web, fuel violent impulses and offenses. And from cyberbullying, bullying through the Internet, to Bullying In real life, the step is very short. In a book entitled The vigilantes of the Web, Jon Ronson writes that "on the web even the good become bad, and the media pillory is worse than that of the Middle Ages." Secondly, the containment dam of families has been increasingly weakened, and the role of parents. Who seem to be split: on the one hand overprotective of their children, on the other little attentive to the violence that creeps among young people.

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