Sameer Hinduja
Biographic Data
| ID | 276793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sameer Hinduja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sameer |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinduja |
| SIGNATURE | HINDUJA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5300-5006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 466 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Risks and Harms of Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Chatbot Use Among US Youth
Introduction Conversational AI (CAI) chatbots are widely used by adolescents for instruction, entertainment, companionship, and advice, but concerns persist that they may foster risky behaviors, spread harmful content, and elevate psychological risks. Given the limited research base, this study examined CAI chatbot use, motivations, and negative or unsafe experiences among US youth. Methods An anonymous online survey was administered to a nationa…
Cyberbullying through the lens of trauma: An empirical examination of US youth
By becoming more trauma-informed and implementing school-based specific measures, those who work with youth can better safeguard and support them in the face of cyberbullying
The role of hope in bullying and cyberbullying prevention
Findings indicate that hope has an inverse relationship with school bullying and cyberbullying behaviors among US youth, suggesting that fostering hope could help reduce these forms of interpersonal aggression. Specifically, schools should prioritize hope-building through the cultivation of one-on-one relationships, the use of scenario-based learning, and the implementation of supportive-cooperative interventions
The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research
Sextortion, the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassing images of a sexual nature without consent, is an understudied problem. Despite a recent increase in reported incidents among adolescents in the United States, little is known about the nature and extent of sextortion among this population. The current research explores sextortion behaviors among a national sample of 4972 middle and high school students (mean age = 14.…
Metaverse risks and harms among US youth: Experiences, gender differences, and prevention and response measures
Research indicates that participation in metaverse environments and with virtual reality (VR) is increasing among younger populations, and that youth may be the primary drivers of widespread adoption of these technologies. This will more readily happen if their experiences are safe, secure, and positive. We analyze data from a nationally representative sample of 5005, 13- to 17-year-olds in the United States to measure their experiences of 12 spe…
Cyberbullying Among Asian American Youth Before and During the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
PURPOSE: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a concern that cyberbullying incidents would increase as youth were spending more time online. Additionally, reports emerged that Asian American citizens were being disproportionately targeted due to the purported origination of the disease. The current study explores whether cyberbullying incidents increased among adolescents overall-and Asian American youth in particular-since the onset of the …
Bias-Based Cyberbullying Among Early Adolescents: Associations With Cognitive and Affective Empathy
Bias-based cyberbullying involves repeated hurtful actions online that devalue or harass one’s peers specific to an identity-based characteristic. Cyberbullying in general has received increased scholarly scrutiny over the last decade, but the subtype of bias-based cyberbullying has been much less frequently investigated, with no known previous studies involving youth across the United States. The current study explores whether empathy is related…
Bullying Victimization, Negative Emotions, and Digital Self-Harm: Testing a Theoretical Model of Indirect Effects
Research on digital self-harm – the anonymous or pseudonymous posting of hurtful or negative information about oneself on the internet and social media platforms – is in the early stages of development. While scholars have started to focus on the correlates of this behavior, there remains a need to anchor the study of digital self-harm within established theoretical frameworks. Herein, we draw on Agnew's general strain theory to examine whether n…
Cyberbullying Among Tweens in the United States: Prevalence, Impact, and Helping Behaviors
The goal of this study was to provide key prevalence rates for experiences with cyberbullying among tweens (children between the ages of 9 and 12 years old). We were also interested in the extent to which tweens engaged in helping behaviors when they observed cyberbullying. American tweens ( n = 1034; mean age = 10.52, SD = 1.12) completed an online survey in which they reported on their experience with cyberbullying victimization, offending, and…
Sextortion Among Adolescents: Results From a National Survey of U.S. Youth
Sextortion is the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassing images of a sexual nature without consent, usually for the purpose of procuring additional images, sexual acts, money, or something else. Despite increased public interest in this behavior, it has yet to be empirically examined among adolescents. The current study fills this gap by exploring the prevalence of sextortion behaviors among a nationally representative sa…
Connecting Adolescent Suicide to the Severity of Bullying and Cyberbullying
While previous studies have identified that school bullying and cyberbullying victimization among adolescents is associated with suicidal thoughts and attempts, no work has measured the severity of bullying incidents and their impact on the youth at school within that context. As such, a survey was distributed to a representative sample of U.S. youth between the ages of 12 and 17, and students who experienced either school-based or online bullyin…
The Nature and Extent of Sexting Among a National Sample of Middle and High School Students in the U.S
Cultivating youth resilience to prevent bullying and cyberbullying victimization
Measuring cyberbullying: Implications for research
Social Influences on Cyberbullying Behaviors Among Middle and High School Students
Cyberbullying Prevention and Response: Expert Perspectives
Just as the previous generation was raised in front of televisions, adolescents at the turn of the 21st century are being raised in an internet-enabled world where blogs, social networking, and instant messaging are competing with face-to-face and telephone communication as the dominant means through which personal interaction takes place. Unfortunately, a small but growing proportion of our youth are being exposed online to interpersonal violenc…
Traditional and Nontraditional Bullying Among Youth: A Test of General Strain Theory
Bullying at school is a common problem facing youth, school officials, and parents. A significant body of research has detailed the serious consequences associated with bullying victimization. Recently, however, a new permutation has arisen and arguably become even more problematic. Cyberbullying, as it has been termed, occurs when youth use technology as an instrument to harass their peers-via email, in chat rooms, on social networking Web sites…
Trends and Patterns Among Music Pirates
The current work, based on data from a cross-sectional sample of approximately 2,000 randomly selected university students, seeks to clarify exactly who is most likely to engage in online music piracy. The extant knowledgebase on why individuals take part in this form of intellectual property is growing, but little is known about the type and background of those involved. This study therefore seeks to construct a profile of the typical music pira…
Cyberbullying and Self-Esteem
BACKGROUND: This article examines the relationship between middle school students' experience with cyberbullying and their level of self-esteem. Previous research on traditional bullying among adolescents has found a relatively consistent link between victimization and lower self-esteem, while finding an inconsistent relationship between offending and lower self-esteem. It is therefore important to extend this body of research by determining how …
Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Suicide
Empirical studies and some high-profile anecdotal cases have demonstrated a link between suicidal ideation and experiences with bullying victimization or offending. The current study examines the extent to which a nontraditional form of peer aggression--cyberbullying--is also related to suicidal ideation among adolescents. In 2007, a random sample of 1,963 middle-schoolers from one of the largest school districts in the United States completed a …
Trends in online social networking: Adolescent use of MySpace over time
MySpace has received a significant amount of negative attention from the media and many concerned adults, who point to several isolated incidents where predators have contacted, become involved with and even assaulted adolescents whom they met through the popular social networking web site. Furthermore, concerned parents have expressed discontent with the amount and type of personal and private information youth seem to reveal on their profile pa…
Teaching Security Courses Experientially
Courses in security are essential in criminal justice programs, but tend to be nonexistent at many postsecondary institutions. Faculty often struggle to legitimize these types of courses, and find that students are reluctant to take them. However, prior research indicates that student career choices and perceptions of the security field change after taking a course in security. The current work summarizes the need to teach security‐related topics…
Neutralizing Music Piracy: An Empirical Examination
The current study sought to test the viability of employing Sykes and Matza's (1957 Sykes , G. and D. Matza . 1957 . "Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency." American Sociological Review 22 : 664 – 670 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) techniques of neutralization as a framework for understanding online music piracy. Using data from a sample of 2,032 undergraduates from a large Midwestern university, the relevanc…
Cyberbullying: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors Related to Offending and Victimization
Victimization on the Internet through what has been termed cyberbullying has attracted increased attention from scholars and practitioners. Defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text" (Patchin and Hinduja 2006 Patchin , J. W. and S. Hinduja . 2006 . "Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard: A Preliminary Look at Cyberbullying." Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 4 ( 2 ): 148 – 169 .[Crossref] , [Google Schol…
Offline Consequences of Online Victimization: School Violence and Delinquency
As increasing numbers of youth embrace computer-mediated communication to meet academic and social needs, interpersonal violence directly and indirectly related to the Internet is occurring more often. Cyberbullying in particular has shot to the forefront of agendas in schools and communities due to the emotional, psychological, and even physical harm to which victims can be subjected. While previous studies have focused on describing its frequen…
Cyberbullying: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors Related to Offending and Victimization
Victimization on the Internet through what has been termed cyberbullying has attracted increased attention from scholars and practitioners. Defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text" (Patchin and Hinduja 2006 Patchin , J. W. and S. Hinduja . 2006 . "Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard: A Preliminary Look at Cyberbullying." Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 4 ( 2 ): 148 – 169 .[Crossref] , [Google Schol…
Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard: A Preliminary Look at Cyberbullying
Bullying in a school setting is an important social concern that has received increased scholarly attention in recent years. Specifically, its causes and effects have been under investigation by a number of researchers in the social and behavioral sciences. A new permutation of bullying, however, has recently arisen and become more common: Techsavvy students are turning to cyberspace to harass their peers. This exploratory article discusses the n…
Traditional and Nontraditional Bullying Among Youth: A Test of General Strain Theory
Bullying at school is a common problem facing youth, school officials, and parents. A significant body of research has detailed the serious consequences associated with bullying victimization. Recently, however, a new permutation has arisen and arguably become even more problematic. Cyberbullying, as it has been termed, occurs when youth use technology as an instrument to harass their peers-via email, in chat rooms, on social networking Web sites…
Social Influences on Cyberbullying Behaviors Among Middle and High School Students
Neutralizing Music Piracy: An Empirical Examination
The current study sought to test the viability of employing Sykes and Matza's (1957 Sykes , G. and D. Matza . 1957 . "Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency." American Sociological Review 22 : 664 – 670 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) techniques of neutralization as a framework for understanding online music piracy. Using data from a sample of 2,032 undergraduates from a large Midwestern university, the relevanc…
Trends in online social networking: Adolescent use of MySpace over time
MySpace has received a significant amount of negative attention from the media and many concerned adults, who point to several isolated incidents where predators have contacted, become involved with and even assaulted adolescents whom they met through the popular social networking web site. Furthermore, concerned parents have expressed discontent with the amount and type of personal and private information youth seem to reveal on their profile pa…
Bullying Victimization, Negative Emotions, and Digital Self-Harm: Testing a Theoretical Model of Indirect Effects
Research on digital self-harm – the anonymous or pseudonymous posting of hurtful or negative information about oneself on the internet and social media platforms – is in the early stages of development. While scholars have started to focus on the correlates of this behavior, there remains a need to anchor the study of digital self-harm within established theoretical frameworks. Herein, we draw on Agnew's general strain theory to examine whether n…
The Nature and Extent of Sexting Among a National Sample of Middle and High School Students in the U.S
Trends and Patterns Among Music Pirates
The current work, based on data from a cross-sectional sample of approximately 2,000 randomly selected university students, seeks to clarify exactly who is most likely to engage in online music piracy. The extant knowledgebase on why individuals take part in this form of intellectual property is growing, but little is known about the type and background of those involved. This study therefore seeks to construct a profile of the typical music pira…
Work place violence and negative affective responses: A test of Agnew's general strain theory
Cyberbullying Among Tweens in the United States: Prevalence, Impact, and Helping Behaviors
The goal of this study was to provide key prevalence rates for experiences with cyberbullying among tweens (children between the ages of 9 and 12 years old). We were also interested in the extent to which tweens engaged in helping behaviors when they observed cyberbullying. American tweens ( n = 1034; mean age = 10.52, SD = 1.12) completed an online survey in which they reported on their experience with cyberbullying victimization, offending, and…
A critical examination of the digital music phenomenon
Bias-Based Cyberbullying Among Early Adolescents: Associations With Cognitive and Affective Empathy
Bias-based cyberbullying involves repeated hurtful actions online that devalue or harass one’s peers specific to an identity-based characteristic. Cyberbullying in general has received increased scholarly scrutiny over the last decade, but the subtype of bias-based cyberbullying has been much less frequently investigated, with no known previous studies involving youth across the United States. The current study explores whether empathy is related…
Metaverse risks and harms among US youth: Experiences, gender differences, and prevention and response measures
Research indicates that participation in metaverse environments and with virtual reality (VR) is increasing among younger populations, and that youth may be the primary drivers of widespread adoption of these technologies. This will more readily happen if their experiences are safe, secure, and positive. We analyze data from a nationally representative sample of 5005, 13- to 17-year-olds in the United States to measure their experiences of 12 spe…
A critical examination of the digital music phenomenon
Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard: A Preliminary Look at Cyberbullying
Bullying in a school setting is an important social concern that has received increased scholarly attention in recent years. Specifically, its causes and effects have been under investigation by a number of researchers in the social and behavioral sciences. A new permutation of bullying, however, has recently arisen and become more common: Techsavvy students are turning to cyberspace to harass their peers. This exploratory article discusses the n…
Offline Consequences of Online Victimization: School Violence and Delinquency
As increasing numbers of youth embrace computer-mediated communication to meet academic and social needs, interpersonal violence directly and indirectly related to the Internet is occurring more often. Cyberbullying in particular has shot to the forefront of agendas in schools and communities due to the emotional, psychological, and even physical harm to which victims can be subjected. While previous studies have focused on describing its frequen…
Work place violence and negative affective responses: A test of Agnew's general strain theory
Police officer performance appraisal and overall satisfaction
Teaching Security Courses Experientially
Courses in security are essential in criminal justice programs, but tend to be nonexistent at many postsecondary institutions. Faculty often struggle to legitimize these types of courses, and find that students are reluctant to take them. However, prior research indicates that student career choices and perceptions of the security field change after taking a course in security. The current work summarizes the need to teach security‐related topics…
Neutralizing Music Piracy: An Empirical Examination
The current study sought to test the viability of employing Sykes and Matza's (1957 Sykes , G. and D. Matza . 1957 . "Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency." American Sociological Review 22 : 664 – 670 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) techniques of neutralization as a framework for understanding online music piracy. Using data from a sample of 2,032 undergraduates from a large Midwestern university, the relevanc…
Cyberbullying: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors Related to Offending and Victimization
Victimization on the Internet through what has been termed cyberbullying has attracted increased attention from scholars and practitioners. Defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text" (Patchin and Hinduja 2006 Patchin , J. W. and S. Hinduja . 2006 . "Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard: A Preliminary Look at Cyberbullying." Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 4 ( 2 ): 148 – 169 .[Crossref] , [Google Schol…
Cyberbullying and Self-Esteem
BACKGROUND: This article examines the relationship between middle school students' experience with cyberbullying and their level of self-esteem. Previous research on traditional bullying among adolescents has found a relatively consistent link between victimization and lower self-esteem, while finding an inconsistent relationship between offending and lower self-esteem. It is therefore important to extend this body of research by determining how …
Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Suicide
Empirical studies and some high-profile anecdotal cases have demonstrated a link between suicidal ideation and experiences with bullying victimization or offending. The current study examines the extent to which a nontraditional form of peer aggression--cyberbullying--is also related to suicidal ideation among adolescents. In 2007, a random sample of 1,963 middle-schoolers from one of the largest school districts in the United States completed a …
Trends in online social networking: Adolescent use of MySpace over time
MySpace has received a significant amount of negative attention from the media and many concerned adults, who point to several isolated incidents where predators have contacted, become involved with and even assaulted adolescents whom they met through the popular social networking web site. Furthermore, concerned parents have expressed discontent with the amount and type of personal and private information youth seem to reveal on their profile pa…
Traditional and Nontraditional Bullying Among Youth: A Test of General Strain Theory
Bullying at school is a common problem facing youth, school officials, and parents. A significant body of research has detailed the serious consequences associated with bullying victimization. Recently, however, a new permutation has arisen and arguably become even more problematic. Cyberbullying, as it has been termed, occurs when youth use technology as an instrument to harass their peers-via email, in chat rooms, on social networking Web sites…
Trends and Patterns Among Music Pirates
The current work, based on data from a cross-sectional sample of approximately 2,000 randomly selected university students, seeks to clarify exactly who is most likely to engage in online music piracy. The extant knowledgebase on why individuals take part in this form of intellectual property is growing, but little is known about the type and background of those involved. This study therefore seeks to construct a profile of the typical music pira…
Cyberbullying Prevention and Response: Expert Perspectives
Just as the previous generation was raised in front of televisions, adolescents at the turn of the 21st century are being raised in an internet-enabled world where blogs, social networking, and instant messaging are competing with face-to-face and telephone communication as the dominant means through which personal interaction takes place. Unfortunately, a small but growing proportion of our youth are being exposed online to interpersonal violenc…
Social Influences on Cyberbullying Behaviors Among Middle and High School Students
Measuring cyberbullying: Implications for research
Cultivating youth resilience to prevent bullying and cyberbullying victimization
Connecting Adolescent Suicide to the Severity of Bullying and Cyberbullying
While previous studies have identified that school bullying and cyberbullying victimization among adolescents is associated with suicidal thoughts and attempts, no work has measured the severity of bullying incidents and their impact on the youth at school within that context. As such, a survey was distributed to a representative sample of U.S. youth between the ages of 12 and 17, and students who experienced either school-based or online bullyin…
The Nature and Extent of Sexting Among a National Sample of Middle and High School Students in the U.S
Sextortion Among Adolescents: Results From a National Survey of U.S. Youth
Sextortion is the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassing images of a sexual nature without consent, usually for the purpose of procuring additional images, sexual acts, money, or something else. Despite increased public interest in this behavior, it has yet to be empirically examined among adolescents. The current study fills this gap by exploring the prevalence of sextortion behaviors among a nationally representative sa…
Cyberbullying Among Tweens in the United States: Prevalence, Impact, and Helping Behaviors
The goal of this study was to provide key prevalence rates for experiences with cyberbullying among tweens (children between the ages of 9 and 12 years old). We were also interested in the extent to which tweens engaged in helping behaviors when they observed cyberbullying. American tweens ( n = 1034; mean age = 10.52, SD = 1.12) completed an online survey in which they reported on their experience with cyberbullying victimization, offending, and…
Bias-Based Cyberbullying Among Early Adolescents: Associations With Cognitive and Affective Empathy
Bias-based cyberbullying involves repeated hurtful actions online that devalue or harass one’s peers specific to an identity-based characteristic. Cyberbullying in general has received increased scholarly scrutiny over the last decade, but the subtype of bias-based cyberbullying has been much less frequently investigated, with no known previous studies involving youth across the United States. The current study explores whether empathy is related…
Bullying Victimization, Negative Emotions, and Digital Self-Harm: Testing a Theoretical Model of Indirect Effects
Research on digital self-harm – the anonymous or pseudonymous posting of hurtful or negative information about oneself on the internet and social media platforms – is in the early stages of development. While scholars have started to focus on the correlates of this behavior, there remains a need to anchor the study of digital self-harm within established theoretical frameworks. Herein, we draw on Agnew's general strain theory to examine whether n…
Cyberbullying Among Asian American Youth Before and During the Covid ‐19 Pandemic
PURPOSE: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a concern that cyberbullying incidents would increase as youth were spending more time online. Additionally, reports emerged that Asian American citizens were being disproportionately targeted due to the purported origination of the disease. The current study explores whether cyberbullying incidents increased among adolescents overall-and Asian American youth in particular-since the onset of the …
The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research
Sextortion, the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassing images of a sexual nature without consent, is an understudied problem. Despite a recent increase in reported incidents among adolescents in the United States, little is known about the nature and extent of sextortion among this population. The current research explores sextortion behaviors among a national sample of 4972 middle and high school students (mean age = 14.…
Psychology (25 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (19 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Poison control (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Suicide prevention (9 works)