The Factors of Cyber Bullying and the Effects on Cyber Victims

• Main Authors: Lukman@Zawawi, Mohamad, Azlini, Chik, Normala, Riza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/5928/1/FH02-FSSG-19-23303.pdf; http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/5928/

Cases concerning cyber-bullying are now rising in Malaysia. It often happens between students. However, kids and adults can also become victims of this crime. Cyber-bullying is a common problem worldwide and it happens almost in every nation in the world especially western countries. What is cyberbullying? Cyber-bullying is an act where the doer proposes an information and action intentionally to hurt individual or group mentally. They do not specifically target any gender or age. This research focused on university students in Malaysia that are directly involved with cyberbully whether they are a victim or the doer. The objective of this research is to analyze the daily usage of the internet of students, and what kind of cyber bully that happens and what are the factors that encourage cyber bullies. The researcher used a descriptive style by using a questionnaire to scrutinize this cyberbullying problem. Based on the result, it shows that cyberbullying crime are rising between students, but the victims usually do not care much, and they chose not to take an action. This led to much more cyberbullying personnel to be created as they thought that no one would ever take any action to them and they do not consider as a form of crime.