Inferring social relationships interrelated impact of personological factors and cyber bullying

Bullying as a menace has its origin dating back to early 15th century. People of all age group experience coercion from their stronger behalf in one form or the other through the act of bullying in all societies. With the advancement of technology, around mid-20th century a new variant of bullying associated with cyber space was observed and recorded in the literature known as cyber bullying. It is perpetrated by using electronic devices and mostly it is done through social networking sites. Although people of any age group can become victim of this crime but it is mostly prevalent among adolescents. Electronic bullying occurs in many shapes and forms and puts a bad impact on one's social relationships. Mostly four groups of people are involved in this manse like bullies, victims, both bully/victims and uninvolved. Internet usage is quite high among young ones but it is revealed in the previous studies that boys act as bullies and become victims also. But girls are mostly found as victims of online harassment. In the Indian contest the subject of cyber bullying and its associated factors are pristine and untouched in the field of research. The seriousness of the issue however, is grave and under reported due to the lack of awareness, on the subject. The shaky form of cyber laws further adds to the complexities associated with cases of cyber bullying, their reporting and consequent judicial discourse. The present study was initiated to explore the relationship cyber bullying shares with social relationships mediated by personological factors in the academic land scape. Since internet is the element propelling cyber bullying, the students pursuing various disciplines in the universities of Punjab with internet facility were chosen as population of the study. The design was kept as descriptive in nature to meet the objectives of the study depicting the impact cyber bullying has on social relationships of the students mediated by personological factors. In order to gather the data of the variables of the study nine standardized tools were used. Knowledge of cyber bullying was measured by using self-constructed tool of nine items with acceptable reliability. Then, Attitude of cyber bullying was measured by using Cyber Bullying Attitude Measure by Christopher P.

Author: Majid Sadeeq S
Publisher: Woa Publishing House
Published: 04/06/2023
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781805254546