Ekaterina Peshnina

The relevance of the study of the inclination to cyberbullying in older teenagers is explained by the increasingly widespread occurrence of this phenomenon. The purpose of the article is to formulate the concept of "cyberbullying", to analyze the causes and characteristics of the categories of children who engage in bullying on the Internet. The main method of empirical research was the questionnaire method. The article presents the results of studying the tendency to cyberbullying in older teenagers, which is expressed by a low level of tolerance, hostility and aggressiveness. The practical significance of the article lies in the fact that the revealed characteristics of adolescents are the basis for organizing preventive work in an educational organization.