The report deals with the study of the teenagers’ attitude to the aggressive behavior and cyber bullying in social media. It is based on the materials obtained by the researchers of the Center for Sociology of Education of the Institute of Education Management of the Russian Academy of Education in the course of an anonymous questionnaire survey of 4837 students in grades 7-11 of schools located in 3 regions of Russian Federation: Zabaikalsky Krai, Tulskaya oblast’ and Smolenskaya oblast’.
The aggressiveness of social networking tends to be a significant point while discussing the risks of modern teenagers’ socialization and cyberbullying is one of the most disputed forms of aggressive behavior in social media. The report discusses teenagers’ attitude towards demonstration of violent scenes as well as their personal experience of dealing with the aggressive situations in social media. The main focus is: social role aspects of interaction in aggressive situations; forms of aggression; aggressors’ characteristics; teenagers’ views on preferred victim’s behavior during the aggressive situation in social media.
The data presented shows that the crucial social-demographic and stratification factors defining the teenagers’ attitude towards aggression in social media are their gender, age, frequency of use of social networks, self-presentation on the Internet, social status in the class, estimation of one’s future success, deviant behavioral tendency, real life interaction in the class.

Aggression and cyberbullying in social media