My current study addressed the following question; do parents know how to access cyber bullying information and what knowledge to parents have regarding cyber bullying?

1. Research Based
Project
Cyber Bullying
By: Fallan Kruse

2. Topic Cyber-Bullying
• An aggressive behavior known as bullying has
been on the rise in school settings. Technology
advances have offered many positive attributes
but, they have also offered a new arena in which
bullying occurs (Raskauskas & Stoltz, 2007).
• Parents may be the adults most able to intervene
in this matter because cyber-bullying usually
occurs more in the home rather than at school.
Studies have shown that informed and aware
parents have the ability to “minimize the
likelihood of cyber bullying” (Strom & Strom,
2005, p.25).

3. Problem
• The participants in this study are 7th grade
parents from Laurin Middle School, located in
Battleground, Washington. This study will
examine parents’ knowledge about cyber
bullying and the resources available to combat
it. I collected data from an anonymous survey
designed for this study using opened
questions as well demographic setting
questions that was design by Strom and Strom
(2005).

4. Where will the data be
collected?
• My school was contacted by the researcher
(myself) first by email and then by mail.
• Laurin Middle School elected to participate
and were given stamped envelopes stuffed
with the survey and return envelope to send to
potential participants.
• Laurin middle school is seeking to get more
parent involvement therefore the school was
able to send these letters out.

5. How often was my data
collected?
• Daily and to ensure anonymity, participating
parents were also asked not to include their
names or the names of their children on the
returned survey.
• My school asked to announce the study in their
newsletters before the letters went home to try
and prepare parents and to increase response
rates.
• Two waves of surveys were sent out, one via mail
and with a follow up email 3 weeks later to try to
increase the response rate.
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6. Data Found from Survey

7. Data Cont.

8. Data Cont.

9. Data Cont.

10. Data Cont.

11. Conclusions
• 52.54% of parents have reported that they have
not had any educational support systems with
regards to cyber bullying.
• The most popular response reported by
parents 56.3% said that they have limits set for
their children for monitoring websites their
children were permitted to use.

12. Conclusions Cont.
• In this study 42.5 % parents chose to limit their child’s
Internet usage and 12.1% said they would supervise
their children during this Internet usage time.
• Supervising and limiting Internet use time eliminates a
child’s time to their social lives.
• Eliminating a child’s time may not always be the
solution to the problem; parents need to be aware of
how technology is being used.
• This research presents that parents need more
information and resources to handle their child being
cyber bullied.

13. What I learned…
• Cyber bullying is a growing issue that is spiraling
out of control and causing severe negative
repercussions to its victims.
• Parents need to understand the availability of
technology and understand they play a major role
in ceasing the caseload cyber bullying incidences
with the proper tools.
• This study has shown that parents need
additional information and education to help their
child combat cyber bullying.

14. What I learned
continued..
• It is also a challenge to get responses back
from parents.
• I talked about this in my final paper as a
limitations to my reseach results. I only had
around 70 % of all survey of my sample
population turn in the surveys.
• Parents were more apt to respond to email
surveys vs. mail in surveys.