Expressive Rationale for the Omission in Measuring the Level of Exposure to Cyberbullying among Students of Basra University

Abstract

The current research aimed to identify the level of exposure to cyberbullying among the students of Basra University. This was achieved by answering the following two questions:

What is the extent of cyberbullying exposure among Basra University students?

Are there any statistically significant differences in the level of exposure to cyberbullying among university students based on gender (male – female)?

The study was applied to a sample consisting of 100 male and female students from the first and fourth stages at the College of Arts, Basra University, for the academic year 2022-2023.

The researcher used a descriptive analytical approach to achieve the research objectives, utilizing the Cyberbullying Scale developed by Omnia Ibrahim El-Shawi in 2014. The data were statistically processed using SPSS V20. The results were as follows:

The level of bullying is low among university students, with an arithmetic mean of 46.58, which is lower than the hypothetical mean of the scale (78), with a statistically significant difference at the level of 0.05. This indicates a lower level of student exposure to cyberbullying and its various types.

There are statistically significant differences in cyberbullying between genders, favoring females. The arithmetic mean for females was 51.440, higher than that for males, which was 41.720. The researcher attributes the higher incidence of bullying among females to spending long hours on social media and its negative impact on the minds of girls.