Studies have indicated that the number of youth reporting cyberbullying instances varies greatly
depending on the definition of the term and the age of those surveyed. In the following study, Sameer Hinduja
and Justin W. Patchin, of the Cyberbullying Research Center, sampled 4,441 teens, ranging in age from
11 to 18, from a large school district in the southern U.S. In this study, the researchers defined cyberbullying
as “when someone repeatedly makes fun of another person online or repeatedly picks on another person
through email or text message or when someone posts something online about another person that they don’t
like” (Hinduja & Patchin, 2010c, p. 1).