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Cybersafety and health<br />
“<br />
When you have trouble online<br />
sometimes it makes you want to<br />
isolate yourself. That makes you<br />
feel stressed and despair.”<br />
Youth who experienced both in-person and<br />
online victimization in <strong>the</strong> past year were more<br />
likely to have missed school recently because<br />
<strong>the</strong>y were afraid of being bullied than those<br />
who experienced one type (17% vs. 2% who<br />
experienced ei<strong>the</strong>r in-person or online bullying).<br />
Missing out on activities<br />
The BC AHS showed that youth who were<br />
victimized in person (teased, socially excluded,<br />
or physically assaulted) were more likely than<br />
those who had not had this experience to have<br />
missed out on extracurricular activities because<br />
<strong>the</strong>y were worried about being bullied <strong>the</strong>re<br />
as well. This was also <strong>the</strong> case for youth who<br />
had been victimized online. For example, youth<br />
who had been cyberbullied were six times more<br />
likely to report missing out on extracurricular<br />
activities in <strong>the</strong> past year for fear of being bullied<br />
(18% vs. 3% who had not been cyberbullied).<br />
Victims of cyberbullying were also more likely<br />
to have missed school for fear of bullying. In <strong>the</strong><br />
past month, 11% had missed classes on one or<br />
two days (vs. 1% who had not been cyberbullied),<br />
and 4% had missed on three or more days<br />
(vs.