Analyzing the Cyberbullying Behaviors of Sports College Students

Abstract

Studies conducted show that verbal and physical aggressive behaviors particularly among students are affected by the cyberbullying behaviors that are recently becoming even more prevalent with the increase in the social media tools. Such a case may also raise the need for investigating the cyberbullying behaviors of students of sports education in particular. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the cyberbullying behaviors of Sports College students. The sample of the study consists of 658 students (465 males and 193 females) studying at Sports Colleges in four different cities in Turkey. Among the quantitative research methods, scanning method has been used in the study. The "Cyberbullying Scale of Sports Audience" developed by Dogar and Karaca (2019) has been used in the study as data collection tool. It consists of 7 questions, which have one-dimension and 5-point Likert scale. The data obtained has had normal distribution. The student t-test has been used for dual comparisons, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Tukey post hoc test has been used for multiple comparisons. The level of significance has been selected as p<.05. The findings of the study have revealed that there were statistically significant differences between the cyberbullying behaviors of Sports College students and their age, sex, educational status of parents, means of following matches, frequency of watching matches, attending to away matches, membership of sports associations, social media accounts, purposes and levels of using such accounts. As a conclusion, it was found out that the efforts of students and teachers alone will not be sufficient in preventing the cyberbullying behaviors. The families, society and the government should also be sensitive of this issue for a solution.

Cyberbullying phenomenon: an investigation among Afghan university students

“…Many studies have been conducted to investigate the phenomenon of CB in various contexts across the world (Alfandari, 2019;Antoniadou et al, 2016;Aricak, 2009;ARICAK et al, 2020;Ata & Adnan, 2016;Balakrishnan, 2015Balakrishnan, , 2018Bernardo et al, 2020;Bevilacqua et al, 2017;R. C. Forssell, 2020;Cáceres-Reche et al, 2019;Calvete et al, 2010;Dilmaç & Aydoǧan, 2009;Dogar, 2019;Ferreira et al, 2016;R. Forssell, 2016;Francisco et al, 2015;Jenaro et al, 2018).…”

“…Similarly, Dogar (2019) studied the behavior of CB among college students. The findings of his study revealed that there were statistically significant differences between sports college students' CB behaviors and their age, sex, parental educational status, means of following matches, frequency of watching matches, attendance at away matches, membership in sports associations, social media accounts, purposes, and levels of using such accounts.…”

Sosyal Medya Platformlarında Dijital Şiddet: Spor Bilimleri Öğrencileri Üzerine Karşılaştırmalı Bir Çalışma

“…çalışmalarında sporcuların antrenmanlarda, müsabaka öncesi ve sonrasında farklı zorbalık türlerine maruz kalabildiklerini belirlemiştir. Benzer şekilde dijital araçlar aracılığıyla şiddet biçimlerinin yaşanması mümkün olan sporda bireyler, farklı amaçlar ve farklı şekillerde şiddetin öznesi veya mağduru haline gelebilmektedir(Cantor, Joppa ve Angelone, 2020;Doğar, 2019;Meggs ve Ahmed, 2021;Oshiro, Weems ve Singer, 2021; Sanderson ve Weathers, 2019).Kavanagh, Jones ve Sheppard-Marks (2016)'ın elit düzeyde sporcuların dijital ortamda yaşadıkları deneyimleri konu edindikleri çalışmada sporcuların fiziksel, duygusal ve cinsel şiddete uğradıklarını ve etnisite, din, engellilik ve cinsel yönelim özelliklerden dolayı ayrımcı yaklaşımlarla kötü muameleye maruz kaldıklarını belirlemiştir.Teknolojik gelişmeler ve bu gelişmelerin ortaya çıkardığı yeni iletişim platformlarının geldiği aşama, dijital şiddetin güncel bir konu olarak kalmaya devam edeceğini göstermektedir.Yine gençlerin bu araçlarla sosyalleşmeleri şiddet biçimlerini dijital alanda ortaya çıkarma ihtimalini artırmaktadır. Bu anlamda çalışma spor bilimleri bölümlerinde okuyan öğrencilerin yaşadıkları dijital şiddetin boyutlarını ortaya çıkarmayı ve diğer bölümlerde okuyan gençler ile karşılaştırmayı amaçlamaktadır.…”