Cyberbullying, a new form of the traditional bullying that has been transferred to the electronic environments (social media, online gaming environments, blogs, etc.), from the physical context to the virtual context, refers mainly to aggression that is deliberately carried out by adolescents. This study aims to measure the level of cyberbullying in Turkish high school students living in Eastern Turkey and identify the demographic and socio-economic factors which lead to being bully and being cyberbullied. The study population consists of 470 students aged from 15–19 years. exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were implemented to identify the factor structure of the scale and it was observed that the Turkish version of the cyberbullying scale (CBS) is best represented by a one-factor structure. The comparisons across demographic and socio-economic variables were implemented using independent samples t test, one-way ANOVA, and Tukey HSD. To summarize the key findings, the variables that significantly affect the students’ CBS scores are; gender, school type, number of siblings, ownership of a mobile phone, length of ownership of a mobile phone, private access to the Internet, family supervision, purpose of Internet usage, length of time spent on the Internet and type of application used to message with others.

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土耳其高中生之间的网络欺凌

网络欺凌是传统欺凌的一种新形式，已转移到电子环境（社交媒体、在线游戏环境、博客等），从物理环境转移到虚拟环境，主要是指故意实施的攻击行为。青少年。本研究旨在衡量居住在土耳其东部的土耳其高中生的网络欺凌程度，并确定导致被欺负和被网络欺凌的人口统计和社会经济因素。研究人群由 470 名 15-19 岁的学生组成。实施探索性因素分析 (EFA) 和验证性因素分析 (CFA) 来确定量表的因素结构，并观察到土耳其版本的网络欺凌量表 (CBS) 最好用单因素结构来表示。t检验、单向方差分析和 Tukey HSD。总结主要发现，显着影响学生 CBS 分数的变量是：性别、学校类型、兄弟姐妹数量、手机拥有量、手机拥有时间、私人上网、家庭监督、互联网使用目的、上网时间和使用的应用程序类型与他人留言。