ANALYSIS ON THE CYBER VICTIMIZATION AND AWARENESS OF CLASSIFICATION BASKETBALL REFEREES IN TURKEY

Abstract

Objective: This study was carried out to investigate the cyber victimization and awareness of basketball referees in classification in Turkey. Methods: A total of 206 basketball referees working as A, B and C classification referees in Turkey Basketball Leagues participated in the study. Basketball referees were applied 14-item Cyber Sensibility Scale and 24-item Cyber Victimization Scale developed by Arıcak et al. Data obtained were analyzed with statistical package program. T-parametric tests and Anova test of variance analysis were performed for comparison. Results: In the results of the research, while basketball referees displayed more sensitivity against cyber bullying (= 36.29), male referees exhibited more sensitivity than females. B-classification referees have significantly less sensitivity than the referees of other classifications. It has been determined that age, marital status, education, occupation, refereeing experience, priorities on the internet, duration of daily internet use, place of access for the internet and the internet tools don’t have any effect on cyber bullying. In other words, basketball referees had a high level of cyber victimization (= 43.55); however, B-classification referees were attacked than other classification referees and it was found significantly in term of daily 9-12 hours on the internet usage. Gender, age, marital status, education, occupation, refereeing experience, priorities on the internet, place of access for the internet and the internet tools were found to have no effect on cyber victimization. Conclusion: As a result, the basketball referees are exposed to cyber victimization despite the exhibition of sensitivity and it can be said that there is no relation between victimization and duration of daily internet use.