The Relationship between Cyber Bullying/Victimization and Emotional Intelligence in Secondary School Students: Mediator Role of Internet Gaming Disorder

Abstract

This study was carried out with the aim of determining the intermediate role of Internet gaming disorder in the relationship between cyber bullying/victimization and emotional intelligence in secondary school students. The study group was composed of 272 secondary school students, 147 males and 125 females. 45 of them were the 5th grade, 82 of them were the 6th grade, 61 of them were the 7th grade and 84 of them were the 8th grade students. The data of the study was collected via the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale, the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory Youth Version and the Revised Cyber Bullying/Victimization Inventory-II. In the study, the criterion sampling method, one of the sub-branches of the purposeful sampling method, one of the non-random sampling methods, was used. In this context, the research data was collected from the secondary school students playing Internet games. With the aim of testing the model related to the Internet gaming disorder, cyber bullying/victimization and emotional quotient, the AMOS 16 was used and the Path Analysis was applied. Moreover, the correlations and the descriptive statistics belonging to the variables were calculated via the SPSS 24 program. The relationships between the variables taken in hand in the study were calculated via the Pearson Correlation coefficient and the prediction levels were determined via the Path Analysis. Moreover, if the Internet gaming level differed according to gender and class level was examined via the independent samples t test.