The Effects of Secondary School Students Exposure to Cyberbullying on School Motivation

Abstract

Cyberbullying has gained a different dimension in educational institutions, especially with the development of technology and the widespread use of Information Technologies, the internet, and social media tools. From this point of view, this study aims to examine the relationship between cyberbullying among secondary school students and the problems in the school motivation and education system. In this context, the study was carried out with the survey model, which is one of the quantitative research methods, and a total of 341 students, 196 girls and 145 boys, from the Secondary School and Imam Hatip Secondary Schools selected from the Tuzla district of Istanbul participated in the study. In addition, the "Cyberbullying and Internet Aggression Screening Scale" developed by Hinduja and Patchin (2007) and adapted to Turkish by Özdemir and Akar (2011), and the "School Motivation Scale for Secondary School Students" developed by Kaynak, Özhan, and Kan (2017) were used. According to the findings obtained from the research, It has been determined that students' exposure to cyberbullying behaviors affects their school motivation.

Cyberbullying among secondary school students: Analyzing prediction and relationship with background, social status, and ICT use

“…This finding supports the hypothesis and previous results, which show that low academic achievement is linked to cyberbullying and cybervictimization [ 76 ]. This means that low academic performance is associated with a proclivity to be a perpetrator [ 77 ], and low academic achievement is also associated with students who are cybervictims [ 84 , 87 ]. Moreover, high academic performance can help prevent wrongdoing [ 88 ].…”

“…Low academic performance was found to be associated with cyberbullying and cybervictimization [ 6 , 36 , 76 , 77 , [84] , [85] , [86] ]. In other words, low academic performance was associated with the tendency to be the perpetrator [ 6 , 77 , 87 ], as well as students who were cybervictims [ 84 ]. Furthermore, high academic performance was linked to a low risk of cyberbullying [ 88 ].…”