PREDICTING THE CYBER BULLYING LEVELS OF STUDENTS IN SECOND STAGE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL ACCORDING TO PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS

As a result of misuse of technological improvements by the students who follow these improvements, cyber bullying, a new bullying type among students, has started to be seen. Cyber bullying can be defined as harming other people in a conscious and deliberate way by using internet and other digital technologies. It was aimed to predict the cyber bullying levels of students in second stage of primary education according to psychological symptoms. The study group of this research consists of 407 people, 192 females and 215 males, studying in primary school in the second term of 2011-2012 education year in Hendek county of Sakarya province. Cyber Bully/Victim Questionnaire and Brief Symptom Inventory were used as data collecting instruments in the research. When the correlation between cyber bullying level and psychological symptoms is examined, it is seen that there is a positive correlation between cyber bullying level and psychological symptoms of anger hostility, depression, interpersonal sensitivity and psychoticism.