Citation

Yurdakul Y, Ayhan AB. Child. Youth Serv. Rev. 2021; 128: e106139.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106139

PMID

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the individual experiences and opinions of adolescent cyberbullying victims on cyber victimization. A case study pattern, one of the qualitative research methods, has been used in the research. The working group of the research comprised 17 adolescents studying at a high school in the city of Antalya in Turkey who had been exposed to cyberbullying. In the study, a cyber victimization scale has been used to identify adolescents who were exposed to cyberbullying. Semi-structured interviews have been conducted by determining the adolescents who had high scores and were therefore exposed to cyberbullying. The inductive content analysis method was used in the analysis of the data obtained from the interviews. As a result of the research, it has been found that the adolescents who had been exposed to cyberbullying described the practice as annoying and bad behavior, the type of cyber victimization that they had experienced was being called from a secret number, they knew who the perpetrator was, they felt high levels of fear and anger when they were exposed to cyberbullying and they shared this with their friends. According to the results of the study, various recommendations are provided for educators, researchers, and families.

Language: en

Keywords

Adolescence period; Cyber victimization; Cyberbullying