Not all attention is good attention?

Cyber Bully Victims Often More Depressed Than Aggressors

I guess maybe researchers thought that victims of bullying would be happy that someone was paying attention to them? But, their research found otherwise:

Students who are victims of cyber bullying at school are more likely to suffer depression than their tormentors, according to researchers.

I think this was mostly a case of a headline gone bad, or maybe someone failing to see the most interesting aspects of the research. The study also looked at the differences between cyber bullying and face-to-face bullying.The fact that cyber bullying victims are more depressed than other bullying victims is kind of interesting.

This new study included U.S. students in grades 6 through 10 who completed a questionnaire designed to measure their levels of depression, and were asked whether they were either perpetrators or victims of bullying.

 "Notably, cyber victims reported higher depression than cyber bullies or bully-victims, which was not found in any other form of bullying," Jing Wang and colleagues at the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) wrote in their report, published in the current issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.