Cyberbullying and victimisation among Turkish university students

Abstract

<span>This study investigated the extent of cyberbullying and victimisation among Turkish university students at a state college of education. A personal information form and 56 scaled items were administered to 254 students. Items addressing cyberbullying victimisation were adopted from a recent study, whereas parallel cyberbullying items were developed and piloted in the current study. High internal consistency coefficients and explained variance values were observed in both 'cyberbullying' and 'victimisation' forms of the instrument. Findings revealed a moderate relationship between cyberbullying and victimisation. That is, being a victim in the cyberspace predicted 23 percent of being a cyberbully. Males were more likely to be both cybervictims and cyberbullies. Neither the cyberbullying nor the victimisation average differed with regard to age, program of study, daily Internet use, language proficiency, socioeconomic status, and the location where Internet was used. Reasons to cyberbully were investigated, which were mostly stemmed from interpersonal problems of participants. Limitations were discussed followed by suggestions for further research.</span>

Cyberbullying: The hidden side of college students

“…Also because of the potential reasons for the high frequency of school violence that are possibly related to the sudden and drastic biological and social changes experienced by adolescents (Li, 2007). However, these phenomena are not only present in adolescence, they also occur during the university years with young adults (Akbulut & Eristi, 2011;Azevedo, 2013;Dilmaç, 2009;Finn, 2004;Francisco, 2012;Kraft & Wang, 2010;Souza, 2011;Walker, Sockman, & Koehn, 2011). Finn (2004) mentioned that what may lead to cyberbullying, is the easy access the university population has to the Internet and the wireless network in universities and faculties (in student residencies, libraries, etc.).…”

The Investigation of Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Cyber Bullying and Victimization

“…Ayrıca Türkiye'de kızların ve erkeklerin farklı sosyalleşme süreçlerinin etkisinde yetişmesi de bu farklılığa yol açmış olabilir. Türkiye'de kız çocukları daha çok denetim altında yetiştirilmekte ve kız çocuklarından saldırganca davranışları kontrol etmeleri erkek çocuklarıyla karşılaştırıldığında daha çok beklenmektedir (Akbulut ve Erişti, 2011). Bundan dolayı gerçek hayatta saldırganca davranamayan kız çocuklarının bu durumu siber zorbalık yaparak telafi etmeye çalıştıkları söylenebilir.…”

“…Yapılan araştırmalar siber zorbalık ve mağduriyet ile cinsiyet, yaş (Ayas ve Horzum, 2012;Hinduja ve Patchin, 2010;Peker ve Eroğlu, 2013;Peker, Eroğlu ve Çitemel, 2012), ailenin aylık geliri (Arslan, Savaşer, Hallett ve Balcı, 2012), anne ve babanın eğitim düzeyi, anne ve babanın birlikte yaşama durumu (Mitchell, Finkelhor ve Wolak, 2003), internete bağlanılan yer (Akbulut, Şahin ve Erişti, 2010), internet kafeye gitme sıklığı (Akbulut ve Erişti, 2011), internetin aşırı kullanımı , bilgisayar kullanma becerisi (Ybarra ve Mitchell, 2004), ergenin anne ve babasının bilgisayar becerisine ilişkin algısı, interneti kullanma amaçları (Akbulut ve diğerleri, 2010), ebeveyn ve okul personelinin denetimi (Kabalcıoğlu ve Eroğlu, 2013;Spears, Slee, Owens ve Johnson, 2008), filtre programı kullanma (Eroğlu, 2014;Mitchell, Finkelhor ve Wolak, 2005) ve sosyal paylaşım sitelerini kullanma sıklığı (O'Dea ve Campbell, 2012) arasında anlamlı ilişkiler bulunduğunu rapor etmişlerdir.…”

Ciberbullying y violencia en la universidad, ¿cómo afecta al abandono?

“…Se han llevado a cabo multitud de investigaciones respecto al ciberbullying, pero la gran mayoría se centran en etapas educativas obligatorias (Kowalski y Limber, 2007), y todavía contamos con pocos estudios en población universitaria (Akbulut y Eristi, 2011;Wright y Li, 2013).…”