Almost three in ten secondary school students are victims of cyber violence at school, and almost one in four secondary school students, in a context of growing online violence that especially affects minors, and especially girls, reveals INSEE.
“During the 2022-2023 school year, 23% of high school students experienced at least once a form of cyber violence linked to the school environment” and 28% of high school students during the year 2021-2022, indicates the survey by the National Institute of Statistics on cyber violence in schools and society.
This online violence in high schools, which often takes place on social networks, “very often takes the form of an insult, a mockery, a nasty nickname or a humiliation, for 21% of high school students and 15% of high school students,” this survey details.
Cyber violence is more common against girls
Girls are more often victims: “31% of high school girls and 25% of high school girls report at least one form of cyber violence, compared to 26% of high school girls and 20% of high school girls,” notes INSEE.
Girls in particular are the target of “the spread of rumours, comments, photographs or humiliating films over the Internet”, the investigation states.
“Cyber violence is part of a global context of violence: 66% of high school students and 51% of high school students are victims of verbal attacks (a nickname, an insult, a humiliation or a mockery) online or offline,” specifies the survey, carried out among managers or students within establishments.
The number of victims of cyber violence among the general population has increased significantly in recent years, but minors are “particularly exposed,” notes INSEE.
More generally, cyber violence affected 3.2% of the adult population in 2022 and, also among adults, women are more victims of cyber violence, according to INSEE.
Source: BFM TV
