The Adolescents Cyberbullying Victims at University

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201221.016How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cyberbullying, victims cyberbullying, adolescent, higher education

Abstract

This research discusses victim cyberbullying phenomena at higher education. Cyberbullying has become cultures in daily lives of Adolescent at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. This cyberbullying can be repeatedly done through short messages, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and other social medium sites. The data were collected using a scale given to 150 Adolescents. This survey research found 150 Adolescents had become the victims of cyberbullying with final data of them classified into extremely high victim of cyberbullying with total number (0), classified into high victim with total number (2), middle victim (47), low level victim (49), and extremely low victim (49). The impacts on the victims were being alone, depressed, less confident, difficult to socialize, lower in academic achievement, easy to have suicide intention, and being easy to have aggression. The researchers recommended to the officials of the university to cooperate with counseling experts at the university to intervene in this cyberbullying in the forms of mentoring, preventing, counseling for the victims and the perpetrators. Besides that, counselling experts must always evaluate the already done intervention by cooperating with the academic lecturer, peers and parents of college students. Thus, the intervention can be expected to suppress cyberbullying actions among Adolescent at higher education.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Desy Wismasari
AU  - Sigit Sanyata
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/22
TI  - The Adolescents Cyberbullying Victims at University
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Yogyakarta International Conference on Educational Management/Administration and Pedagogy (YICEMAP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 70
EP  - 72
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201221.016
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201221.016
ID  - Wismasari2020
ER  -