Study Finds 1 In 20 Teens Are Victims Of Sextortion
By Elizabeth Dohms
One in 20 middle and high school students are threatened with explicit pictures they share in confidence, and those victimized students also are more likely to make such threats, new research shows.
A study released last month from the Cyberbullying Research Center, co-led by University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire professor Justin Patchin, surveyed 5,500 students ages 12 to 17 from across the nation in 2016.
Five percent of those surveyed reported being a victim of this type of transaction dubbed sextortion, which can spur demands such as sexual acts, money or more images in exchange for not releasing the compromising image. Three percent said they threatened to share an explicit image, the findings show.
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Bullying in the NHS costing the service more than £2 billion per year in England, research warns
by Telegraph Reporters
Bullying and harassment in the NHS could be costing more than £2 billion per year in England alone, warns new research.
The figures come from the first comprehensive estimate of the financial costs of bullying and harassment in the NHS.
The study, published in the journal Public Money and Management, used data from NHS Digital to gauge the impact of bullying on sickness absence, employee turnover, productivity, sickness presenteeism, and employment relations.
The financial cost of each of those factors was then combined to produce the overall figure of £2.281 billion per year.
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Should victims of office bullying land larger payouts (NZ)?
by HRD
In New Zealand, payouts for victims of workplace bullying could eventually reach the relatively high levels of the US, according to the founder of the American Workplace Bullying Institute.
Dr Gary Namie said employers need to know that the pay-outs at the level we see in the United States could become a reality in New Zealand if cases were taken through criminal law channels instead of the Employment Relations Authority (ERA).
The largest-ever ERA award in a New Zealand workplace bullying case is $98,000 which was handed to a kindergarten teacher with more than 20 years’ experience, according to Dr Namie.
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The Digital Well-Being of Canadian Families
In this study, MediaSmarts conducted a survey of 825 parents of children from birth to 15 years old to learn more about their digital family life; specifically, the digital technology uses and activities of their children, their parenting style, and the opportunities and challenges that digital technology brings to parenting and family life in Canada. The results of this study emphasize that there is not a one-size-fits-all solution for digital well-being in families. However, one consistent pattern is the importance of digital literacy in tipping the scales in favour of the positive effects of digital technology use in Canadian families.
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