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The Investigation of Predictors of Cyber Bullying and Cyber Victimization in University Students
Üniversite Öğrencilerinde Siber Zorbalık ve Siber Mağduriyetin Yordayıcılarının İncelenmesi
Gizem AKCANa, Erdinç ÖZTÜRKb
aBartın University Faculty of Art, Department of Psychology, Bartın, TURKEY
bİstanbul University-Cerrahpaşa Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Department of Social Sciences, İstanbul, TURKEY
Turkiye Klinikleri J Foren Sci Leg Med. 2020;17(1):47-57
doi: 10.5336/forensic.2019-71934
Article Language: EN
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ABSTRACT
 Objective: The aim of the present study is to determine the predictors of cyber bullying and cyber victimization in university students. Moreover, whether cyber bullying and cyber victimization scores of the participants differ or not in terms of gender and marital status was examined. Material and Methods: The participants of the study were 300 (150 females and 150 males) university students who were studying in different departments in state and private universities in Istanbul and the ages of the participants were between 18 and 35 years. Demographic Information Form, Cyber Bullying/Cyber Victimization Scales and Young Internet Addiction Scale were applied to the students. Results: According to the findings of this study, gender, marital status and internet addiction as together had predictive value on cyber victimization in university students. It was also found that gender, marital status, internet addiction and age as together had significantly predicted cyber bullying scores of the participants. Furthermore, cyber victimization scores of males were higher than females; however, there was no significant difference between females and males in terms of cyber bullying. Additionally, it was found that there was no significant difference between married and single subjects in terms of cyber victimization, but single subjects were more prone to make cyber bullying than married ones. Conclusion: Cyber bullying and cyber victimization seem to be widespread all over the world. It is stated that prevention and coping programs should be organized in order to protect students from the negative effects of cyber bullying and that the participation of school staff, family and community in these programs is very important. Individuals need to be educated on the use of the internet and mobile phones, and taught how to cope with cyber bullying.

Keywords: Cyber victimization; cyber bullying; internet addiction; cyber psychology; cyber pathology
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 Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, üniversite öğrencilerinde siber zorbalık ve siber mağduriyet değişkenlerinin yordayıcılarının incelenmesidir. Ayrıca bu çalışmada, katılımcıların siber zorbalık ve siber mağduriyet puanlarının cinsiyet ve medeni durum açısından farklılık gösterip göstermediği incelenmiştir. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Bu araştırmanın katılımcılarını, İstanbul'da devlet üniversitelerinde ve özel üniversitelerde farklı bölümlerde okuyan 300 (150 kadın ve 150 erkek) üniversite öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır ve katılımcıların yaşları 18 ile 35 arasındadır. Katılımcılara, Demografik Bilgi Formu, Siber Zorbalık/ Siber Mağduriyet Ölçekleri ve Young İnternet Bağımlılığı Ölçeği uygulanmıştır. Bulgular: Bu çalışmanın bulgularına göre, cinsiyet, medeni durum ve internet bağımlılığı değişkenleri birlikte üniversite öğrencilerinde siber mağduriyeti yordamaktadır. Ayrıca, cinsiyet, medeni durum, internet bağımlılığı ve yaş değişkenlerinin birlikte üniversite öğrencilerinin siber zorbalık puanlarını anlamlı derecede yordadığı bulunmuştur. Bunların yanı sıra, erkeklerin siber mağduriyet puanları kadınlardan daha yüksektir; ancak, kadınlar ile erkekler arasında siber zorbalık açısından anlamlı bir fark bulunamamıştır. Bunlara ek olarak, evli ve bekar insanlar arasında siber mağduriyet açısından anlamlı bir fark bulunmazken, bekar bireylerin evli bireylere oranla daha fazla siber zorbalık yaptıkları görülmüştür. Sonuç: Siber zorbalığın ve siber mağduriyetin tüm dünyada oldukça yaygın olduğu görülmektedir. Öğrencileri siber zorbalığın olumsuz etkilerinden korumak açısından önleme ve başa çıkma programlarının düzenlenmesinin gerektiği ve okul personelinin, ailenin ve toplumun bu programlara katılımının oldukça önemli olduğu belirtilmektedir. Bireylerin internet ve cep telefonu kullanımı konusunda eğitilmeleri ve siber zorbalık ile karşılaştıklarında bu durum ile nasıl başa çıkacaklarının öğretilmesi gerekmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Siber mağduriyet; siber zorbalık; internet bağımlılığı; siber psikoloji; siber patoloji
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Privacy Policy

We recommend you to read the terms of use below before you visit our website. In case you agree these terms, following our rules will be to your favor. Please read our Terms of Use thoroughly.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com website belongs to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. and is designed in order to inform physicians in the field of health

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. will be pleased to hear your comments about our terms of use. Please share the subjects you think may enrich our website or if there is any problem regarding our website.

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