Abstract:

Today's technological developments are changing the shape of the relations between adolescents. This can have positive or negative effects on adolescents' behavior. It has been pointed out recently that adolescents display some undesirable behaviors in the virtual environment. It can be thought that this situation will result from the social skills and the level of support they receive from their environment. Accordingly, the relationships between cyberbullying, social competence and social relations (family-peer support) perceptions of students' were examined in this study. The study was carried out in the public secondary schools of Altındağ district of Ankara. The study involved 337 students. The study data were obtained through the Cyberbullying Scale, Perceived Social Competence Scale and Social Relations Scale. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis. According to the findings, cyberbullying has negative and low-level significant relationship with social competence and family support. Social competence, on the other hand, is in a moderately significant positive relationship with family and peer support. Also peer support was also found to predict social competence significantly. As a result of the study, it was pointed out that especially family support had an important effect on students' cyberbullying behaviors and social competences.

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