Abstract
The development of technology and especially the changes and innovations experienced in the development of mobile technologies have increased the use of such technological devices in the society. Mobile technologies and smart phones among them have positive effects both in social life and academic life, as well as situations that cause some negative use as a result of intensive use of such technologies. Cyberbullying behaviour, which aims to harm others' lives by using technological devices, comes to the forefront among these problems. Therefore, this study aims to investigate engagement in cyberbullying behaviour and the sensitivity towards cyberbullying, which is a common behaviour especially among secondary school students. The study was carried out with 747 secondary school students studying in the 5th and 6th grades of public schools in the fall term of the 2019-2020 academic year. “Cyberbullying Scale” and “Sensitivity towards Cyberbullying Scale” were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis H and Spearman rho tests were used to evaluate the data that were found not to show normal distribution. As a result of the study, it was determined that the students' levels of engagement in cyberbullying behaviour were “low”, whereas their sensitivity levels towards cyberbullying were “high”. In the study, it was revealed that the difference between students' engaging in cyberbullying behaviour and their sensitivity towards cyberbullying in terms of gender and grade variables, and the difference between their cyberbullying sensitivity levels and mother education level, father education level, computer ownership, tablet ownership variables, were found to be significant. However, it was determined that there was a negative and moderate relationship between their cyberbullying behaviour and their sensitivity towards cyberbullying.
Highlights
The development of technology and especially the changes and innovations experienced in the development of mobile technologies have increased the use of such technological devices in the society
Social networks and instant messages, which are among the dominant tools and methods of personal interaction, have replaced faceto-face interaction and are situated at the centre of life (Hinduja & Patchin, 2008)
When we look at research on cyberbullying, it is observed that especially students of secondary and high school perform such negative behaviour at a high rate (Kavuk Kalender et al, 2019; Rao et al, 2017) and cyber victimization is an important problem among secondary and high school students (Duman & Bridge, 2019)
Summary
The development of technology and especially the changes and innovations experienced in the development of mobile technologies have increased the use of such technological devices in the society. It is seen that especially young people spend a lot of time with such mobile technologies. Hardware and software innovations carried out on mobile technologies attract a lot of attention of young people and increase the number of users and usage time of mobile technologies. In addition to the fact that mobile technologies containing such applications, including smart phones, among these have positive effects in both social life and academic life, there are situations that cause some negative situations as a result of intensive use of such technologies. As can be seen, cyberbullying is one of the behaviours that should be taken into consideration amongst others that lead to negative behaviour caused by using technological devices in daily and academic life
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