Improving Adolescent knowledge to Prevent Cyber Bullying through Psychoeducation

Abstract

In Indonesia, the number of teenagers who experience cyber bullying is reported 80 percent, and almost every day cyber bullying happens to the teenagers. Cyber bullying is violence that occurs through social media, when a child or teenager is ridiculed, humiliated, or intimidated by another child or youth through internet media, digital technology or cell phones. The negative effects of bullying and cyber bullying in childhood will have an impact on emotional disorders, poor psychosocial adaptation disorders and pathological behavioral disorders. The aim of psycho education at SMP 1 Kasembon is to increase youth’s knowledge to prevent cyber bullying behavior, due to the phenomenon that occurred at SMP Negeri 1 Kasembon, there was a scattering of photos and videos of several students by other people, with the intention of deliberately spreading photos and videos so that students were embarrassed and threated. Providing psycho education about cyber bullying to 54 students containing meaning, types, causal factors, impacts and ways to deal with them. The research method was a quasi-experimental. From the results, there were differences in adolescent knowledge of cyber bullying before and after being given psycho education. It was concluded that psycho education was proven to be effective in increasing adolescents’ knowledge of cyber bullying.