The prevalence of Cyberbullying and demographic characteristics of bullies, victims and cyber bullies-victims

Cyberbullying is defined as a willful and repeated harm, inflicted through computer, cell phones and other electronic devices. In this article, the prevalence of cyberbullying and demographic characteristic of the people who were involved in this phenomenon, has been studied. ۴۲۵ boys and girls in Kermanshah’s high school had been selected using randomized cluster procedure. The prevalence of cyberbullying was ۷.۷ percent, cybervictimization was ۱۰.۹ percent, and cyberbully-victim was ۳۱.۴ percent and ۵۰.۰ percent of the students weren’t involved. The result of demographic characteristics showed that more than half of boys and less than half of girls were involved in cyberbullying. Students who were involved in cyberbullying, had weaker religious beliefs in family and reported worse parent-child relationships. They also had more daily internet use and using social network is what they do the most on the internet. Results of other demographic characteristic is shown in their own tables. The prevalence of cyberbullying and cybervictimization is aligned with other countries but cyberbully-victims’ rates are higher. Results of some of the demographic characteristics showed pretty interesting differences that must be considered in future studies.

کلیدواژه ها:

Cyberbullying ، Cyberbully ، Cybervictim ، Cyberbully-victim Prevalence ، Demographic characteristic ، Students ، آزار سایبری ، آزارگر سایبری ، آزاردیده سایبری ، آزارگر-آزاردیده سایبری ، شیوع ، متغیرهای دموگرافیک ، دانش آموزان