Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Social Work Intervention on Preventing Cyberbullying Revictimization Among Youths

Cyberbullying is one of the most common results of information and communication technologies' development. Cyberbullying victims may experience various consequences which will effect on different aspects of their well-being. In this investigation the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral social work intervention on preventing cyberbullying revictimization was studied.

This is a clinical trial study and convenience sampling was conducted to select forty-two members of the Red Crescent youth organization of Tehran participated who were cyberbullying victims. Participants were allocated randomly to intervention and control groups twenty-one persons for each group. Cyberbullying Victimize Checklist was used to collect data. The intervention group received cognitive-behavioral social work intervention and control group received entrepreneurship education as placebo. The posttest was performed two months after the intervention. Chi-square, Fisher's exact test and ordinal regression were used to analyze data. 

Forty-seven percent of the participants were male. Sixty-six point six percent of them were in the age group of eighteen to twenty-one years old and seventy-six percent were single. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between the amounts of participants cyberbullying victimization before and after the intervention. The intervention group significantly revictimized in cyberbullying less than control group. The cognitive-behavioral social work intervention could predict cyberbullying revictimization duration and frequency. 

So this study showed that conducting cognitive behavioral social work intervention could be an effective strategy to reduce the risk of cyberbullying revictimization.