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. 2024 Jan 15:14:1279234.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1279234. eCollection 2023.

Cyberbullying and mental health: past, present and future

Suhans Bansal  1 , Naval Garg  1 , Jagvinder Singh  2 , Freda Van Der Walt  3
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Cyberbullying and mental health: past, present and future

Suhans Bansal et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Purpose: Cyberbullying has attracted the world's attention, and therefore researchers across the world have contributed to the literature on cyberbullying and mental health. Amongst others, they have conducted bibliometric analyses and associated cyberbullying with various factors but have not determined the impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health. Hence, the aim of this study was to conduct bibliometric analyses of cyberbullying and mental health to analyze the academic performance of the literature on impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health; and to propose future research avenues to make further contributions to this field of study.

Methodology: Spreadsheets and VOSviewer were used to conduct the bibliometric analysis. The data were extracted from the SCOPUS database which provided an extensive collection of data and journals.

Findings: Having explored the top active countries publishing on the impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health and the academic performance of such research articles by means of a qualitative bibliometric analysis, the results revealed that this research topic is still to be researched extensively. The study also suggests countries/regions where this research topic can be explored further, as well as possible journals for publication of research results, and further studies to be conducted.

Discussion: The literature presents a fragmented view on the impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health. Studies on cyberbullying are limited for the reasons as discussed in this article. Hence, bibliometric analysis was conducted to analyze the performance of academic literature on the impact of cyberbullying on people's mental health; the academic performance of research articles on cyberbullying and mental health; and to make proposals toward a future research agenda.

Keywords: bibliometric analysis; cyber perpetration; cyber victimization; cyberbullying; mental health.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Figures

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Search model. Source: SCOPUS, Authors' creation.
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Publication and citation trend. Source: SCOPUS database.
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Journal overlay map. Source: SCOPUS, VOSviewer.
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Country map. Source: SCOPUS database, VOSviewer.
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Country overlay map. Source: SCOPUS, VOSviewer.
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Keyword network visualization. Source: SCOPUS, VOSviewer.
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Keyword overlay map. Source: SCOPUS, VOSviewer.
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