Cyberbullying as a negative result of cyber-culture of Slovak children and adolescents: selected research findings

• Authors: Katarína Hollá
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cyber-culture points out the life in cyberspace and goes beyond national cultures. It is particularly attractive for the young people who use Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to express their attitudes, values, beliefs and thinking. Those do not need to be necessarily in accordance with the standards of an individual society. Cyberculture becomes dangerous. Great risk lies in cyberbullying that represents negative impact of cyber-culture on human behavior. The aim of the study is to detect cyberbullying as a negative impact of cyber-culture among of Slovak children and adolescents. The research was carried out on a sample of 1619 11-18-year old respondents (average age was 14.51). Results of cyberbullying research carried out using Latent Class Analysis (LCA) have proved the appropriateness of 3-latent-class module. Relative entropy of the module reached 0.915. It was demonstrated that 52.9% of respondents belonged to the group of uninvolved, 42.7% were victims and 4.4% were victims-aggressors. Being a negative consequence of cyber-culture, cyberbullying is a challenge that educators - including other assisting professions - face when educating children and adolescents to orientate in cyberspace, behave responsibly, express themselves in a way that would not interfere others’ integrity and identity (personal and virtual). The study was written under VEGA MŠVVaŠ SR a SAV č. 1/0244/15: “Detekcia a riešenie kyberšikany”.

Keywords

EN

Adolescents; cyber-culture; cyber-aggression; cyberbullying; children; LCA,mMedia education; research

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Language and Cultural Education
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 40-55

Dates

published

2016-05-01

online

2016-07-14

Contributors

author

Katarína Hollá

• PhD. Department of Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University, Dražovská 4, 949 74 Nitra, Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/jolace-2016-0015