Cyberbullying: Life Satisfaction and Social Suport among Adolescent

Abstract

The Technology gives much anvantages for adolescent to interact with other people. But the other hand, that is asociated with cyberbullying. Cyberbullying behavior is a digital form of bullying, having similarities in terms of repetition, intentional harm, and an imbalance between bullier and victims, only cyberbullying is done using electronics. There are life satisfaction and social support that can reduce cyberbullying behavior. 255 students (male 39.2%, female 60.8%) of vocational high school in Bogor aged 15-19 years, that use handphone and active in social media, completed selfreport questionnaire. That are Cyberbullying Offending Scale (COS: [13]), Multidimensional Student Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS: [38]), and Interpersonal Social Evaluation List (ISEL: [40]). CFA analysis used to compute construct validity and multiple regression to test hipotesis. It was found that life satisfaction and social support had a significant influence on cyberbullying behavior (R-square=0.098). The samples studied were found that someone with low level in living environment satisfaction and appraisal support, and then high level in self satisfaction will not do cyberbullying.