The people who performed and participated in this study was 265 undergraduate students in the Communication Course in large Southwestern University. The students were told what to do through emails. The participants were asked through surveys about situations in which the they have seen cyberbullying happen to anyone online. To those who could not respond with a situation, were given a different type of survey. All the students contributed in one way even if they could not fill the question.
3. Publication of this article came from an academic journal. This article was received in July 19, 2016 and published in June 13, 2017. They are usually peer-reviewed papers about discussions of research. Which in this case, it is about how bullying can affect health problems in the future of these students. The purpose of an academic journal is to inform readers more about informative material going around in the world.
4. This type of publication can affect validity of the information by the biased opinion of the author. Since it is a discussion of a specific type of research, the author can have a side that he or she may agree on more and this can bring the article more on one side than the …show more content…
The sample size of this study were 265 undergraduates. Out of the 265 participants, 198 were female and 67 were male. The ages of these participants were in between 18 to 42. As for the ethnicity, Caucasians were the majority with a 61.7%. Hispanics were next with a 15.2%, after it was Asians with a 10.2%. African Americans made up 6.3%. Other was 2.7%, Middle Easterners were 1.9%, and finally Native Americans were 1.1%. Sexual orientation was not asked for this study.The methods used to gather for this study was asking each participant's questions in surveys online involving their experience and other things relating to bullying. I believe that the study should've used more options on having more males than what they used. I also believe more things such as knowing their seuxal oritation can bring a huge factor to this study. Maybe we could of seen a difference between someone who is heterosexual and someone who is homosexual. 7. The authors knew they could have not conclude or assume because they knew they needed more specific information to make a general conclusion. They did see a variety of ways of how online versus offline bullying can be so different. Online bullying can be very open to more harassment than offline. To have a general idea, they should of done more than just asking questions about these situations but to observe some and take note. The information can be a bit broad since I believe having more variety