The poll of 1,512 young people across England found that 78 per cent of young people fear cyber-bullying will continue to rise with four in 10 young people reporting to have been affected by phenomenon.
Commissioned by the Diana Award, with the support of the Children’s Research Centre at the Open University, the survey also found that abusive emails and text messages were the most prominent forms of cyber-bullying, while older teenagers were at greater risk of more aggressive behaviour, including incidences of death threats, computer viruses and explicit images.
Mary Kellett, professor of childhood and youth and director of the Children’s Research Centre, said: "This youth-led report demonstrates the impact that cyber-bullying is having on young people’s lives, the pace at which it reinvents itself and the inadequacy of current measures to contain it.
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