LODDON MALLEE - Cyber Safe Kids

Table 8. Rates and reporting of online victimisation per year level
Total
number of
students
Victim of online
harassment at least
once in last month
Victim of online
harassment at
least weekly in
the last month
Reported this
harassment
Grade 4 43 8 (18.6%) 3 (7.0%) 2 (25%)
Grade 5 121 29 (23.4%) 8 (6.6%) 13 (44.8%)
Grade 6 119 30 (25.2%) 13 (10.9%) 13 (43.3%)
Year 7 23 8 (34.8%) 2 (8.7%) 4 (50%)
Year 8 31 10 (32.2%) 4 (12.9%) 6(60%)
Year 9 6 2(33%) 0 0
Year 10 69 38 (55%) 17 (24.6%) 9(23.7%)
Year 11 11 5 0 3 (60%)
**Interpret year 9 and year 11 data with caution: low response rate renders data not
representative.
These results suggest that online harassment whilst occurring in primary school is considerably
more common place in secondary school in the Bendigo region. In this sample more than half
the students in year 10 reported being the target of online harassment in the last month. The
rates of reporting harassment were low, and it is surprising that the year 10 group who reported
experiencing the most online harassment had the lowest rates of reporting harassment.
Table 9 shows that for the young groups reporting to parents was the most commonplace, and
for those in year 9 and 10 they took advantage of being able to report harassment to the
provider of the website.
Table 9. The most common places to report online harassment
Reported to: Parents Teachers Web/server host
Grade 4-6 51(76.4%) 5(7.3%) 11(16.4%)
Year 7-8 14(77.8%) 1(5.51%) 3(16.7%)
Year 9-10 16(40%) 8(20%) 16(40%)
Year 11 2 (40%) 2 (40%) 1(20%)
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