The phenomenon of electronic bullying at the university and its repercussions on its students, a field study at the Faculty of Specific Education, Tanta University

Al-Asami, Abeer Fawzy Abdel-Fattah

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2021.219816

The phenomenon of electronic bullying at the university and its repercussions on its students, a field study at the Faculty of Specific Education, Tanta University

Document Type : Original Article

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Abeer Fawzy Abdel-Fattah Al-Asami

Department of Educational and Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Specific Education, Tanta University, Egypt.

10.21608/jsrep.2021.219816

Abstract

The current study aimed to reveal the repercussions of the phenomenon of cyberbullying on students of the Faculty of Specific Education, TantaUniversity. In order to achieve this, the descriptive approach and the questionnaire tool were used, which included two axes: The practices of cyberbullying, and the effects of bullying on students, which included two dimensions; The effects of bullying on students victims of bullying, the effects of bullying on bullying students, the questionnaire was applied to a stratified random sample of students of the Faculty of Specific Education at Tanta University, which consisted of (541) members, with a percentage (20.92) of the original community of (2586) male and female students. The study found that the most prominent practices of cyberbullying are: The student impersonates a friend of his and shows him badly in front of others., the student mocks the body and shape of a student through social networking sites, the student calls some names that provoke ridicule at others via the Internet, directing threats to some students through social networking sites, recording offensive words for students and displaying them on the Internet, and the study also found that the most prominent effects Bullying on students victims of bullying are: the student who is bullied feels distressed, miserable and confused, the student who is bullied feels anxious and insecure, the bully student weakens focus and attention during the educational process, the student who is bullied faces difficulty in forming friendships inside and outside the university. A student who is bullied becomes more vulnerable to exploitation The study also found that the most prominent effects of bullying on bullying students are that the bullying student faces a lack of benefit from the university programs in the college, the bullying student is deprived and expelled from the university, the bullying student develops in criminal acts and violates the law, the bullying student enters into a permanent fight with others inside the university , the bullying student only sees himself and what he can get, and the study found that there are statistically significant differences about the total axes of the questionnaire (the first: the practices of online bullies, the second: the effects of cyberbullying on university students), at the level (0.05) due Variation of the type variableAnd all of these differences were in favor of the higher group on average, namely the female students. The study also found that there were statistically significant differences between the responses of the sample members according to the band variable in relation to the total of the first axis of the questionnaire, in favor of the fourth year students. There are also statistically significant differences between the responses of the sample members according to the band variable in relation to the total of the second axis of the questionnaire, in favor of the fourth band students.

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