| Due to the expansion of cell phone use and home computer ownership, youth have many ways to communicate without parental supervision (Raskauskas & Stoltz, 2007). Electronic victimization appears to be a new avenue for youth to harass each other. Parental monitoring (Ybarra & Mitchell, 2004a) and more importantly youth disclosure of information to parents (Kerr, Stattin, & Burk, 2010) may be ways to help prevent or limit electronic victimization. This study looked at electronic aggression and victimization in the home school population which had previously not been independently studied. Parental monitoring and youth disclosure of information reported by both parents and youth were used to predict electronic victimization. The study showed that electronic aggression and victimization are occurring in the home school population. One of the unique findings was that parent reports of child disclosure and parental solicitation accounted for significantly more variance with the two models than did youth reports. Moreover, frequency of electronic medium use and skill level each accounted for one percent of the variance over and above the control variables in the prediction of electronic victimization. Previous research had indicated that as skill level increased and the amount of time spent on the internet, the likelihood of electronic aggression and victimization increased (Patchin & Hinduja, 2008). |
