Assessment of Cyber bullying and Emotional Stability among Higher Secondary Students
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The influence of social network in present days becoming rampant in our society, our teenagers, especially school and college students massively use the internet, by using the social networking sites via email, facebook, whatsapp, twitter, Skype etc. They became addicted to it. Most of them bullying and harass others through sending nasty and insulting messages, posting pictures and sexual remarks or blackmailing the bully through his/ her personal texts, photographs, relationship etc. The present study is an attempt to assess the level of cyber bullying and emotional stability among higher secondary students. A sample of 160 students selected from different secondary school in Chidambaram among which 80 boys (40 from science and 40 arts background) and 80 girls (40 from science and 40 arts background) were randomly selected and were given two questionnaires; Cyber bullying and Online Aggression Survey by Hinduja & Patchin [1]. Emotional Stability Test by A. Sen Gupta, AK. Singh. The findings of the present study validated that girls are more victim of cyber bullying then boys; they are more cyber victimized then boys, on the other hand boys show more cyber offending tendency than girls; simultansaly science students are more victims of cyber victimization and cyber offending than arts students. Significant differences were also found among emotional stability scores of boys and girls. Girls and science student’s shows higher level of emotional stability then boys and arts students. To sum up, taking into account the results of the current study, we might conclude that gender has significant effect on cyber bullying and emotional stability while faculty has not significant effect on cyber bullying and emotional stability. Cyber bullying is one of the darkest and troubling aspects of the growing technology. Students in developed as well as developing countries are engage with cyberspace at very young age, and use internet as a means to bully and harass to other. The term “Cyber Bullying” was coined by Bill Belsey, Canadian educator; it refers to bullying and harassment of others through internet and social networks like facebook, whatsapp, twitter, hike, imo, even by mobile phones. Cyber bullying has been defined as “an aggressive act of behavior that is carried out by using electronic means by a group or an individual repeatedly and over time against a victim who cannot easily defend him or her Smith [2]. According to cyber bullying involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others”. Over 30% of the students are victims or perpetrators of cyber bullying; it is also found that one in four of the student (25.7%) is involved in cyber bullying as bully and a victim within the period of three month (Mishna, Saini & Solomon [3]).
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Mohammad Amin Wani, Sankar R, Anicham J
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- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000147
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