The new face of violence tendency:Cyber bullying perpetrators and their victims

• Published in: Computers in human behavior Vol. 59; pp. 317 - 326
• Main Authors: Sari, Serkan Volkan, Camadan, Fatih
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01-06-2016
• Subjects: Adolescents; Bullying; Correlation; Cyber victim; Cyberbullying; Human behavior; Regression; Stockpiling; Students; Violence; Violence tendency; Violence tendency; Cyber victim; Cyberbullying
• ISSN: 0747-5632; 1873-7692
• DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.027

The present study examines the role of violence tendecy on cyberbullying perpetrations and their victims. Turkish adolescents [N = 286, 167 girls (58,4%) and 119 boys (41,6%)] aged 15–18 years [mean age of 17.6 years (df:0.78)] were recruited from different high school types [101 (35.4%) of the participants were students in vocational high school, 88 (30.7%) anatolian high school and 97 (33.9%) public high school]. Participants completed Revised Cyber Bullying Inventory (RCBI, Topçu & Erdur-Baker, 2010) and Violence Tendency Scale (VTS, Haskan & Yıldırım, 2012). Collected data were analyzed Pearson correlation coefficients and simple regression. Pearson correlations revealed that violence tendency was positively related to cyberbullying perpetration (r = 0.344, p < 0.01). Also, violence tendency was positively related to cyber victimization (r = 0.242, p < 0.01). Also simple regressions revealed that violence tendency was significant individual predictors both cyberbullying perpetration and cyber victimization.
•There was a positive correlation between cyberbullies and violence tendency.•There was a positive correlation between cyber victims and violence tendency.•Cyberbullies and victims were significantly predicted by violence tendency.