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The advent and growing popularity of cyber communication is creating new negativities on online platforms, particularly cyberbullying. Cyberbullying and other cybercrimes are intertwined with cyber security. The current study is an attempt to scrutinize the association of cyber security measures adopted by the teenagers with being cyberbullied and further with the nature of their involvement. The study employed a cross-sectional survey of 1325 teenagers in the cosmopolitan society of Kolkata by stratified, random sampling design. Application of the inferential analysis like anova had been used to test the bivariate associations between different cybersecurity measures and cyberbullying of the teenagers, by the help of statistical package SPSS 22 for Windows. These associations were further analysed with the help of line and bar graphs by using MS Excel. Cyber security measures like frequency of sharing password, personal information disclosed on social networks, information disclosed to strangers on social networks, accepting invitation from strangers on social networks to meet in person, posting of private digital materials, quantity of safety measures adopted on different online platforms has been analysed. All of them appeared to be statistically significant. The result indicated strong relationship between these cyber security measures and nature of involvement of the teens in online bullying.
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Pramanick, S., Ghosh, S. (2023). Teenagers, Cyberbullying and Cyber Security Measures: An Insight in Urban India. In: Chatterjee, U., Antipova, A., Ghosh, S., Majumdar, S., Setiawati, M.D. (eds) Urban Environment and Smart Cities in Asian Countries. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25914-2_13
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