Awareness and incidences of cyberbullying among high school students

Abstract

The principal purpose of the study was to find out the awareness and incidences of cyberbullying among the students of Marciano M. Patricio National High School. Specifically, it aimed to: find out the socio-demographic profile of the respondents in terms of age, sex, grade level, parents` educational attainment, parents occupation; find out the level of awareness of the respondents on cyberbullying and; find out the incidences of cyberbullying experience by the respondents. This study was conducted during the school year 2017-2018 at Marciano M. Patricio National High School. The respondents of the study were the 320 selected students from grades 7 to 12 who were officially enrolled during school year 2017 to 2018. They were drawn purposively using complete enumeration technique. A modified researcher-made questionnaire was used as the survey instrument to gather data from the respondents. Frequency count, percentage and mean were the statistical tools used in analyzing data. The finding revealed that in general high school students were 17 years old and below, females, junior level, with parents who attained high school level of education and whose fathers were self-employed while their mothers were unemployed. The high school students were generally "very much aware" of cyberbullying issues. They experienced cyberbullying mostly in the forms of taking them pictures without their permission, receive malicious pictures, post in social media without their permission, tagging them with some hilarious and ugly pictures, giving them negative comments in everything that they post, and sending them offensive, rude, and insulting messages.