EXAMINATION OF ADOLESCENTS’ COPING WAYS WITH CYBERBULLYING

Year 2016, Volume: 4 , 582 - 589, 01.09.2016

Omer Gokdemır Ahmet Oguz Akturk

Abstract

With
the rapid development in information and communication technologies, increase
in quality and quantity of various tools that are compatible with Internet also
augments interpersonal communication and interaction opportunities on the
Internet. This increase in interpersonal communication and interaction on
virtual platforms, however, brings a set of problems along, too. One of these
problems is the use of the virtual platform technologies by the young to bully
(cyberbullying) their peers. Considering 12 to 20 years of adolescents, being
the most engaged people with virtual platforms, and who are called the digital
natives; ascertaining adolescents’ coping ways with cyberbullying is thought to
be important. The purpose of this study is to examine 9^th, 10^th,
11^th and 12^th grades high-school adolescents’ coping ways
with cyberbullying on the basis of gender, high-school type and Facebook
membership variables. Survey model was used as the research method. The study
was conducted with 301 adolescents from two different high-schools in a city in
the centre of Turkey. “Coping with Cyberbullying Scale towards Adolescents”
consisting of 17 items and 4 subscales was used to obtain research data.
Findings obtained from the research show that adolescents’ coping ways with
cyberbullying are generally elevated. Additionally, while there is a
significant difference in favour of female adolescents in coping ways with
cyberbullying in terms of gender; there is, on the other hand, a significant
difference in favour of adolescents studying from public high-schools in terms
of school type. Finally, coping ways with cyberbullying according to whether
the adolescents are members of Facebook, differentiated on a significant level
in favour of the ones that are not members of Facebook.

Keywords

Coping with cyberbullying, adolescents, gender, facebook membership

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