Sexual Diversity Cyberbullying Questionnaire (Muñoz-Fernández et al., 2024)

• Populations: Spanish LGBTQ+ individuals
• Age ranges: Range not reported; M = 14.54, SD = 1.76
• Languages: Spanish (items presented in English, English validation not reported)
• Countries: Spain

Items

Subscales:

• General Cyberbullying
• LGBTQ+ Cyberbullying

General Cyberbullying

• Swearing to someone or insulting them 
• Saying swear words about someone to other people in online messages
• Threatening someone through online messages
• Hacking into someone’s account and stealing their personal information
• Hacking into someone’s account and impersonating them
• Creating a fake account to impersonate someone else
• Posting someone’s personal information 
• Posting compromising videos or photos of someone
• Retouching someone’s photos or videos 
• Excluding or ignoring someone in a group
• Spreading rumors about someone 

LGBTQ+ Cyberbullying

• Insulting someone by saying things such as “fagot,” “queer,” “tomboy,” “lesbian,” or related terms
• Threatening someone by alluding to their sexual orientation or identity
• Spreading rumors about someone’s sexual orientation or identity
• Mocking someone’s appearance, clothing, or gestures for not considering them “masculine” or “feminine” enough
• Picking on a member family of someone because they are LGBT

Responses:

Items used a 5 point Likert-type scale (0 = Never; 4 = Yes, more than once a week)

Scoring

Not Reported

Citations

Noelia Muñoz-Fernández, Rosario Del Rey, Joaquín A Mora-Merchán &Paz Elipe (2024) Sexual Diversity Bullying and Cyberbullying Questionnaires: An Inclusive Approach to Measure Sexuality-Based Bullying, Journal of Homosexuality, 71:12, 2740-2763,

DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2023.2260922

Team comments

This measure was validated alongside The Sexual Diversity Bullying Questionnaire (SDBQ) (Muñoz-Fernández et al., 2024).