The Behavior and Attitude toward Cyberbullying among Secondary School Students in Bangkok, Thailand

Abstract

     The purposes of this research were to study and compare cyberbullying behaviors and attitude towards cyberbullying of secondary school students in Bangkok. The participants were classified by their genders, educational level and parenting styles. The samples were 1,043 students, with 159 appeared to have conducted cyberbullying on socials media. The 3-part online questionnaire on cyberbullying behaviors and attitude was employed as research instrument to collect personal data, cyberbullying behaviors and cyberbullying attitude of the participants. Data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, percentages, averages, standard deviation, Chi-square test and independent t-test.

     The research result showed that the most frequently found cyberbullying behaviors of students were making comments using impolite words or damning. Regarding personal factors such as genders, educational level and parenting styles, it was found that among these variables there was no significant differences in terms of whether they had or would cyberbullying or not. On the other hand, gender, educational level and parenting styles appeared to result in attitude towards cyberbullying with significant difference at .05.