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Assessment of Cyber bullying and Emotional Stability among Higher Secondary Students

**Mohammad Amin Wani¹*, R Sankar² and Anicham J³**

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2017.01.000147

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- ¹Research Scholar in Psychology Annamalai University, India
- ²Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Annamalai University, India
- ³Clinical Psychology Department of Psychology Annamalai University, India
*Corresponding author: Mohammad Amin Wani, Research Scholar in Psychology Annamalai University, India

Received: June 09, 2017 Published: June 19, 2017

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Abstract

The influence of social network in present days becoming rampant in our society, our teenagers, especially school and college students massively use the internet, by using the social networking sites via email, facebook, whatsapp, twitter, Skype etc. They became addicted to it. Most of them bullying and harass others through sending nasty and insulting messages, posting pictures and sexual remarks or blackmailing the bully through his/ her personal texts, photographs, relationship etc. The present study is an attempt to assess the level of cyber bullying and emotional stability among higher secondary students. A sample of 160 students selected from different secondary school in Chidambaram among which 80 boys (40 from science and 40 arts background) and 80 girls (40 from science and 40 arts background) were randomly selected and were given two questionnaires; Cyber bullying and Online Aggression Survey by Hinduja & Patchin [1].

Emotional Stability Test by A. Sen Gupta, AK. Singh. The findings of the present study validated that girls are more victim of cyber bullying then boys; they are more cyber victimized then boys, on the other hand boys show more cyber offending tendency than girls; simultansaly science students are more victims of cyber victimization and cyber offending than arts students. Significant differences were also found among emotional stability scores of boys and girls. Girls and science student’s shows higher level of emotional stability then boys and arts students. To sum up, taking into account the results of the current study, we might conclude that gender has significant effect on cyber bullying and emotional stability while faculty has not significant effect on cyber bullying and emotional stability.

Keywords: Cyber bullying; Cyber victimization; Cyber offending; Emotional stability; Gender; Faculty