Abstract
Literatures on high prevalence of domestic violence are well documented. There is however paucity of research on exposure to domestic violence relates to cyber bullying behavior among Nigerian adolescents. The focus of this study was to determine the correlation between Exposure to Domestic Violence (EDV), depression and cyber bullying behavior among secondary school adolescents. A total of 300 purposively selected secondary school adolescents in Oshodi Isolo, Lagos metropolis Nigeria responded to Child Exposure to Domestic Violence Scale (CEDV), Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) and Online Victimization Scale for Adolescents (OVSA). Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Data was analyzed using the descriptive (frequency count) and Inferential statistics (Pearson moment correlation analysis). A high prevalence of EDV, depression and involvement of cyber bullying was reported. Patterns of the factors of cyberbullying ranged from 26.7% individual online racial discrimination to 37% vicarious online racial discrimination. EDV significantly positively related to depression and involvement in cyber bullying. Significant gender influence was observed on depressing and cyber bullying. Age categories significantly influenced cyber bullying. Authors conclude that a high prevalence of depression and involvement in cyber bullying exists among secondary school adolescents. EDV is a significant positive correlate of depression and cyber bullying. There is gender difference on depression and cyber bullying. Age categories influence cyber bullying among the adolescents.
Highlights
Belsey [1] explained Cyber bullying (CB) as involving the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to aid deliberate, repeated, and aggressive behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others
CB can be defined as a series of recurring, intentionally aggressive behaviors that is carried out by a group or individual using electronic means, focused on threatening, embarrassing, or intimidating a victim who cannot defend himself or herself [2]
In this study our aim is to ascertain the Patterns of the factors of cyber bullying, Find out the relationship between Exposure to Domestic Violence (EDV), depression and involvement in cyber bullying, observe the gender difference on depression and cyber bullying, and determine the influence of Age categories on cyber bullying
Summary
Belsey [1] explained Cyber bullying (CB) as involving the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to aid deliberate, repeated, and aggressive behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others. CB can be defined as a series of recurring, intentionally aggressive behaviors that is carried out by a group or individual using electronic means, focused on threatening, embarrassing, or intimidating a victim who cannot defend himself or herself [2]. Willard, [3] categorized forms of cyber bullying into the following: 1) Flaming which involves sending angry, rude, vulgar messages directed at a person or persons privately or to an online group. Just like the traditional bullying, CB can result in psychological harm as low self-esteem, school failure, anger, anxiety, depression, school avoidance, school violence, and suicide [4]
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