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Cyberbullying Vulnerability Scale (CK-22) Test

With 21 questions, the Cyberbullying Vulnerability Scale (CK-22) Test takes about four minutes to complete. It explores experiences and habits linked to online aggression, harassment, and humiliation, helping you understand the vulnerability reflected in your answers and identify patterns for thoughtful digital self-reflection.

Questions: 214 minutes

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How the Scales are Structured

Cyberbullying VulnerabilityCV

Measures how vulnerable a person is to becoming a target of cyberbullying and related online harassment in digital environments.

example score2/46

2/46Low vulnerabilityexample score

0 – 18Low vulnerability

19 – 46High vulnerability

A score of 2 falls in the Low vulnerability range, suggesting relatively low susceptibility to cyberbullying in typical online interactions.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Teens active on social media

44%OF USERS

They take it to understand how their online habits and reactions might increase the chance of being targeted by harassment.

Parents and caregivers

32%OF USERS

They use it to gauge vulnerability factors and decide how to talk about boundaries, privacy, and support if bullying occurs.

Educators and counselors

24%OF USERS

They take it to quickly identify who may need extra protection and to plan prevention or support activities.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

Vulnerability to CyberbullyingVtC

You?

Average23.8

Typical rangeTypical15.3 – 32.2

Possible0 – 46

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- a) All the time
- b) Sometimes
- v) No
- More than 100
- Between 10 and 100
- Fewer than 10
- a) Often
- b) Sometimes
- c) Never

These are 3 of the 21 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Cyberbullying Vulnerability Scale (CK-22) Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People who want to understand how their online habits, social experiences, and reactions to digital conflict may relate to vulnerability can use the Cyberbullying Vulnerability Scale (CK-22) Test as a focused self-report exercise. Its role as an online bullying vulnerability assessment is to clarify reported vulnerability to online aggression, harassment, and humiliation, with attention to digital exposure, social context, and emotional responses.

What This Assessment Explores

The questionnaire examines vulnerability to online aggression, harassment, and humiliation, particularly where social media and smartphones shape contact. Its items also touch on internet routines, previous bullying, low mood, family monitoring, openness, and conduct toward others, linking vulnerability with both exposure and personal context.

For people reviewing digital boundaries, the cyberbullying vulnerability test summarizes reported vulnerability to cyberbullying and related online experiences. The score describes a tendency in the answers, not a fixed personal label.

One displayed scale, Cyberbullying Vulnerability, runs from 0-46, with Low vulnerability (0-18) and High vulnerability (19-46).

The questions bring together four themes that give the score a human context:

Online activity indicates patterns of exposure and engagement with digital spaces.
Social context shows how relationships and past bullying may shape vulnerability.
Emotional response reflects distress and low mood reported in relevant situations.
Digital conduct captures behavior that can increase conflict or harm.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Responses combine frequency choices such as often, sometimes, and never with categorical questions about online activity, number of contacts, time online, relationships, mood, and prior experiences. Some items use yes/no or three-way alternatives, so the format is not a single uniform agreement scale. Together, the items cover exposure, context, and conduct toward others.

For interpretation, this cyberbullying vulnerability questionnaire produces a score on the displayed scale. The result is placed in the displayed vulnerability band; because answer weights are not stated, the number of points contributed by each option should not be inferred.

The closest published basis is Sheinov's questionnaire on individual vulnerability to cyberbullying (Sheinov, 2020). Sheinov and Devitsyn (2023) examine the factor structure of a short version. These studies support conceptual alignment, but do not establish that this online presentation is identical to the published instrument, nor do they provide norms for its result bands. Current mood, memory, honesty, and interpretation can influence self-report, and published norms for its result bands are not established, so the score is best used to notice patterns.

Author: Peter K. Smith, Sameer Hinduja

Literature:

Sheinov, V. P. (2020). Questionnaire on Assessing Individual Vulnerability to Cyberbullying: Development and Preliminary Validation. RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics, 17(3), 521-541. 10.22363/2313-1683-2020-17-3-521-541
Sheinov, V. P., & Devitsyn, A. S. (2023). Factor Structure of the Short Version of Cyberbullying Vulnerability Assessment Questionnaire. Systems Psychology and Sociology, 2023, no. 1 (45), 18-30. 10.25688/2223-6872.2023.45.1.02

Updated: 2025-10-02