التنمر الإلكتروني لدى طلبة كلية التربية الأساسية بدولة الكويت و علاقته ببعض المتغيرات

Abstract EN

The current study aims to identify the forms of cyberbullying for the students at the Faculty of Basic Education in The State of Kuwait and the effect of the variables of gender, academic year, most widely- used social media, number of hours using social media and the electronic games on this.

This study adopts the descriptive analytical approach and the study's sample consists of (163) male and female students at Faculty of Basic Education.

A questionnaire that contains (28) statements divided into four axes has been applied on the sample of the study.

The results of the study show that the most widespread forms of cyberbullying among the individuals of the study sample are: exclusion, then mockery and threating, and finally mal reputating, sexual harassment.

The results show that there are statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) among the averages of the study sample individuals concerning all the dimensions of cyberbullying due to gender variable, while there are no differences due to number of hours using social media variable.

Also, the results display that there are no differences concerning mal reputing and sexual harassment, the violation of privacy, and exclusion due to academic year variable, while there are differences concerning mockery, threating.

Also, the results display that there are differences concerning mal reputing and sexual harassment due to Social media variable, while there are no differences concerning exclusion, mockery, threating, and the violation of privacy.

Furthermore, the results indicate that there are differences concerning mockery, threating, and the violation of privacy due to electronic games variable, while there are no differences concerning regarding mal reputing, sexual harassment, and exclusion.