The prevalence of cyberbullying and demographic characteristics of bullies , victims and bully-victims

Cyberbullying defined as a willful and repeated harm inflicted through computer, cell phones and other electronic devices. In this article prevalence of cyberbullying and demographic characteristic of persons who involved in this phenomenon had been studied. 425 boys and girls in Kermanshah’s high school with cluster randomized procedure had been selected. Prevalence of cyberbullying was 7.7 percent, cybervictimization was 10.9 percent, cyberbully-victim was 31.4 percent and 50.0 percent of the students wasn’t involved. Result of demographic characteristics showed that more than half of boys and less than half of girls were involved in cyberbully. Students who involved in cyberbully had lower family religious status and reported worse parent-child relationship. They also had more daily internet use and using social network is what they do most in the internet. Results of other demographic characteristic is shown in their own tables. Prevalence of cyberbullying and cybervictimization is aligned with other countries but cyberbully-victims rates are higher. Results of some of demographic characteristics showed pretty interesting differences that must be considered in future studies.