A Study On Developing A Cyberbullying Scale For High School Students
Abstract
Bullying is classified as physical bullying that involves hitting, pushing and hindering; verbal bullying that involves insulting, giving names, embarrassing; and emotional bullying that involves excluding from group, backbiting and breaking the friendship. Cyberbullying is another aspect of bullying. The purpose of this study is to develop a scale of cyberbullying behaviors for adolescents. Items in the trial form of the scale were written a literature review by the researchers. Trial form of scale consisted of 25 items. The pilot study for the scale was conducted for 231 students attending from high schools in Zonguldak province. An explanatory factor analysis was performed for the construct validity of the scale. A four-factor construct was obtained in the results of analysis. These factors were named as “disturbing via cyber”, “cyber harassment”, “vengeance”, “spoofing”. These four factors explained 66.235% of total variance. The Cronbach Alpha coefficients of these factors were varied between 0.58 and 0.91.
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