التنمر الإلكتروني و أثره على طفل الروضة في السعودية

Abstract EN

Background: The current study intended to investigate cyberbullying among kindergarten children in Saudi Arabia to identify possible factors that may impact cyberbullying; measure the prevalence rate of cyberbullying and its impact on the kindergarten child.

Method: participants were 125 children from kindergarten and school children their ages between 5 to 8 years.

Results: The results from this study revealed that some kindergarten children had lack of awareness about cyberbullying would be illegal behavior.

It was also revealed that there is a need for holding conferences in school and kindergarten settings in order to educate parents and caregivers how to help their children who were being cyber-victims and to take serious action to protect other children from being victims in the further.

Participants agreed that Schools/kindergarten settings would have to raise student's awareness about cyberbullying and how to use technological devices effectively in their daily lives without feeling being threatening from others.

Conclusions/significance: A better understanding of children experiences of cyberbullying among kindergarten children has been obtained.

The findings from this study found that peer education by children in kindergarten and school was the most commonly used approach mentioned by participants and is recommended, but it‟s better to ask parents for help in relation to a cyberbullying incident, because peers will have no solutions unlike parents who have sensible solutions.

These solutions intentioned to minimize cyberbullying as much as possible among children in preschools and to protect them from being cyberbullied.

Implementation: Parents and caregivers should closely monitor what their children do on the Internet at home, including what sites their children visit, what messages they receive, and what they post.