ظاهرة الابتزاز الإلكتروني الموجه ضد المرأة: الدوافع والأسباب-المخاطر والآثار

Abstract EN

The research aims to identify the electronic blackmail directed against women, and to achieve this goal, the researcher tried to identify the reality of the phenomenon of electronic blackmail in Egyptian society, its concept and forms, and to reveal the motives and factors leading to the spread of this phenomenon, and to reveal the risks and implications for women (girls) and society as a whole.

to achieve this goal, the researcher conducted case studies through in-depth interviews with girls who were subjected to electronic blackmail.

she also conducted an electronic questionnaire on university students of both sexes (males and females).

the sociometric characteristics of the questionnaire were verified by applying it to a legalization sample of (100) male and female students from university students, and to test the validity of the questions and hypotheses of the research, the final image of the questionnaire tool was applied to another sample of university students, consisting of (250), and the study resulted in a set of results, most notably that electronic extortion is a widespread phenomenon in the Egyptian society in a large way and that most of the social networking sites that are done through during which electronic blackmail is Facebook, as the results proved that this phenomenon has many negative effects on the girl the most important of which are tension, anxiety and fear of tarnishing the reputation and the family and society’s view of the girl, and often they reach the idea of ending their lives by committing suicide.