Original scientific paper
The Role of Perceived Social Injustice and Care Received from the Environment in Predicting Cyberbullying and Cybervictimization
Vesna Bilić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2306-5803
; Faculty of Teaching Education, University of Zagreb
Abstract
This paper examines the prediction of experiencing and committing cyberbullying on the basis of perception of injustice and care received from the environment. The study involved 481 (51.1% female and 48.9% male) seventh and eighth grade students from Croatian elementary schools. The average age of the respondents was 13.8 years. The questionnaires applied were General information questionnaire; Scale of exposure to peer bullying in virtual world; Scale of frequency of bullying in virtual world; The presence of caring- a protective factor for the individual and the Questionnaire on perception of social injustice. The respondents reported they were more often victims than perpetrators of cyberbullying, and that they perceived care of the adults, but also social injustice, as being in a relatively high level. When it comes to dimensions of social injustice, they perceive inequality before the law, not accepting social norms, and general injustice as being higher than injustice in school and family. The results have shown that students who perceive less care from the environment and greater general injustice are more often perpetrators of cyberbullying. Therefore, a greater perception of social injustice and lack of support from the environment were found to be statistically significant predictors for cyberbullying and cybervictimization.
Keywords
adolescents; social injustice; cyberbullying; social care
Hrčak ID:
126396
URI
Publication date:
23.7.2014.
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