Abstract
Social support may mitigate the negative effects adolescents might experience when exposed to bullying. This study aimed to identify who adolescents turned to when they experienced bully victimization and whether their choice of support differed by type of bullying (traditional or cyber), role in the bullying (bully, victim, bully-victim, uninvolved) or gender of the victim and /or aggressor. This study included a secondary data analysis of survey data from 64 7th and 8th graders from one middle school in Northern California. Analysis showed that sources of support differed by gender and type of bullying. Adolescents who were cyber bullied in chat rooms and group sites (e.g. MySpace, Facebook) relied on their best friends for social support. However, when encountering traditional bullying, only females relied on their best friends and adults for social support.