Bullying may seem like a grade school problem, but Ellen Kraft knows how the Internet has extended its reach.
A professor in the business school at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Kraft has been studying bullying in its newest form – cyberbullying – and how the schoolyard bully can easily reach into college classrooms and company boardrooms all around the world.
“It’s a huge issue,” said Kraft, who is involved with the International Project on Cyberbullying.
Closer to home, she did a survey on cyberbullying and cyberstalking among students at Stockton and presented her results at the college’s Day of Scholarship last week. A survey was sent to sophomores, juniors and seniors and 471 responded,
74 percent of them female.
Of those who responded, 10 percent said they had been victims of cyberbullying, and 9 percent said they had been cyberstalked, which was when they feared for their safety.