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Handbook of Research on Cyberbullying and Online Harassment in the Workplace
The act of self-harm involves any deliberate act of inflicting pain and damage to one’s own body.
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Social and Legislative Issues in Handling Cyberbullying in India
Karthikeyan C. (T. John College, Bengaluru, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4912-4.ch021
Abstract
This chapter will address the social and legislative issues of workplace cyberbullying in India. The sociological issues arising out of workplace cyberbullying in India and across the world, its nature, evolution, impact, and intensity are analyzed with the statistical evidence from various research studies. The importance of averting and preventing cyberbullying is addressed with the developments happening in the introduction of legal provisions and legislative measures, enactments of controlling various countries of the world including India are analyzed. The chapter covers the veracity in the psychological impact with statistical inputs from the evolution, kinds, and purpose of using the anti-bullying laws in India, and its socio-legislative issues beyond the law, and clarifies the difficulties in measuring, with examples and the practical strategies to handle cyberbullying. The chapter also brings in through references and some of the popular posters that are popular across the world, which shall be put up in important places to educate every Indian citizen.
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Stabilization of Students With Mental Health Crises in Nigeria's Higher Institutions
Self-harm refers to maladaptive coping to life stressors involving inflicting injury to self or committing suicide.
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