The effectiveness of cyber bullying reduction training packages for students and parents on self-esteem and life satisfaction of high school students

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of cyber bullying reduction training packages (especially for students and parents) on self-esteem and life satisfaction in high school students. The method was quasi-experimental (pre-test-post-test) with control group and follow-up stage. The statistical population was all high school students (second year) cyber bullying (perpetrators) in Gachsaran city in the academic year 2009-2010. In the sampling method of the present study, first the cyber bullying questionnaire was given to high school male and female students. Then, after analyzing the results, cyber bullying students (perpetrators) were identified, 15 people were assigned as the experimental group and 15 people as the control group. Both groups completed the Cooper-Smith (1968) and Life Satisfaction (Hubner, 2001) self-esteem questionnaires as a pre-test and then as a post-test after the implementation of training packages. After the external (executive) validation, the training packages were implemented in the form of a preliminary study on a group of 4 people for cyber bullying perpetrators for 10 sessions and the parents of cyber bullying perpetrators for 4 sessions and the defects and ambiguities were reviewed and removed. Then the main performance was performed and research data were analyzed at both descriptive and inferential levels. Analysis of covariance was used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that the difference between pre-test and post-test in the scores of all research variables was significant (p <0.001). Therefore, cyber bullying reduction training packages can be used to improve research dependent variables.