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Case Study on Cyberbullying among Australia Students

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Case Study on Cyberbullying among Australia Students

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CYBERBULLYING AMONG AUSTRALIAN STUDENTSNAME:UNIVERSITY:DEPARTMENT:COURSE:REG. NUMBER:DATE: 27/09/2017
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ABSTRACTThe study was entitled cyberbullying among Australia students. A case study of students agedYear 10 to Year 12, was conducted to respond to behaviors among secondary students alcoholand drug use. The researcher reviewed the related literature to come up with the full idea of thestudy, both primary and secondary data were obtained and analyzed in relation alcohol and drugabuse among students.Primarily, the researcher used questionnaire on purposive sampled respondents, for secondarydata as well as existing literature in National Survey of Australian Secondary Students andSexual Health (NSASSSH) were used, the collected data were presented in statistical tables,analyzed and interpreted in line with the objectives to have meaningful information. Excel andSPSS software were use in analysis of data. The data analysis method included both descriptivestatistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics are used to describe the data; they includefrequency table, mean, mode, proportion and histogram. Inferential statistics are used to analyzesample and make deduction of population.Majority of students reported not receiving any form of cyber bullying as shown by descriptivestatistics. Those exposed to cyber bullying are mainly exposed to bullying behavior of receivinga prank call once in a week or more and deliberately being ignored on things over the internet.Gender that is male and female is statistically insignificance of type of bullying a student isexposed. Whether one is male or female does not influence which type of cyber bullying oneexperience. Females and males both experience the same type of bullying over the internet,through the call and via mobile text. The proportion of male and female experiencing prankmobile call is statistical insignificance
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CHAPTER ONE:INTRODUCTIONIntroductionRecent statistics on internet use in Australia shows significance increase of internet use amongyouth. Students between ages of 8-11 years use internet on average of 30 minutes in a day whichis an increase from previous statistics. The main reason why youth use internet is to interact withother online, send and receive emails and search and acquire information needed to completeclass work and projects. This type of peer interaction poses safety risks and most commonamong adolescent from their peers is bullying (Dooley et al, 2009).Cyberbullying was first identified by press in Australia in 2003 following a research conductedto study cyber bullying among students. The growing use of internet among youth and increasepublic interest about cyberbullying in Australia has been on record. Little was known by adultsconcerning these online behaviors (Campbell, 2005). Farrington & Ttofi (2009) in their work,role of schools rules regarding the use mobile phone outside school. Found that mobile phonerules were associated with lower cyberbullying only among students in primary schools. Thiswas due to low internet and mobile accessed by primary school students compared to those insecondary schools.Those who engage in cyberbullying or bullying develop rebellious character and tend to groupthemselves. This suggests that schools with higher reports of bullying and cyberbullying are atrisk of higher prevalence of these activities (Sourander et al., 2011). According to problembehavior theory if students feel isolated for their indigent behaviors there is high likelihood toremain with acceptable society boundaries. Schools should expose cyberbullying as teenage actand behavior with negative health and many more consequences instead of addressing it asdiscipline problem. This concept was effective in reduction of habitual cigarettes use (Hamiltonet al., 2005). Statement of problemCyberbullying is common among Australian youth due to rise use of internet among secondaryand primary students. It is therefore necessary to identify the most common type ofcyberbullying and the gender which is high risk of cyberbullying. There are a lot of similarities
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between face to face bullying and cyber bullying. Most of young people bullied offline alsoreport being bullied online (Cross et al., 2010).Research questionsHow does cyber bullying vary, in terms of the type of bullying and its frequency andgender of students in Years 10, 11 and 12? Do types of cyber bullying for these groups differs significantly?Considering the qualitative data available, what are possible impacts of cyber bullyingbehaviors in Year 12 students?
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