Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify the level of cyberbullying through the means of social media among the students of the basic stage in the Directorate of Education of the University District, the sample of the study consisted of 388 students from the seventh and tenth grades. To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was developed for the cyberbullying, which consisted of 30 items in its final form, and its validity and reliability were verified, the results of the study showed that there was a moderate level of cyber bullying in the sample of the study. There were no differences between the statistical averages according to gender. However, there were differences of statistical significance attributed to the grade and in favor of the tenth grade.

Highlights

  • The era in which we live is the era of knowledge explosion and the digital revolution and rapid changes and successive in all areas, and social networks find a great success and popularity among the members of the society, and spread to link human relations between the countries of the world and its continents

  • Abuse through school bullying and electronic bullying is a global problem spread across different countries and societies and has many negative and complex psychological, emotional, social or educational implications for the health of both the bullying and the victim

  • Children who are exposed to bullying in school may suffer from several negative effects, including their effects on their cognitive abilities

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Introduction

The era in which we live is the era of knowledge explosion and the digital revolution and rapid changes and successive in all areas, and social networks find a great success and popularity among the members of the society, and spread to link human relations between the countries of the world and its continents. The world has become a small village that one can travel through its continents and countries by controlling some buttons on the keyboard of the computer or mobile device (Trolley, Hanel, & Shields, 2006). New and sophisticated web-based tools have emerged in a more interactive and participatory manner, which led to the entry of the internet at an advanced stage of the stages of development called social networking sites and has been able to provide all the advantages of attracting large numbers of users as the user becomes a product of the information and not consumer of it (Donegan, 2012). Came social networking sites that are dynamic web pages, but multimedia has been used more widely and comprehensively by providing images, videos, blogs and more (Swearer, Wang, Mang, Siebecker, & Frerichs, 2012)

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