Abstract:

Today, bullying has changed methods and tools with the use of technology by very large masses and named as cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is behaviours aimed at hurting, threatening, humiliating, excluding and discriminating the person or persons identified as targets using information and communication technologies. Cyberbullying causes various negativities on victims. Generally, these negativities are called cyber victimization. Cyber victimization reduces victims' self-esteem. Accordingly, the study aimed to determine the cyber victimization and cyberbullying sensitivity levels of employees and the effect of their sensitivity on their self-esteem. The sample of the study consists of school administrators and teachers that are working at official schools that are at Gaziantep province, Şahinbey district. In order to collect data, Personal Information Form, Revised Cyber Bullying Inventory, Cyberbullying Sensitivity Scale and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were used. Descriptive statistics and hierarchical multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the data. In line with the findings obtained, it is concluded that there is a moderate, positive and meaningful relationship between the self-esteem levels and sensitivity to cyberbullying level of school administrators and teachers who experienced cyber victimization.

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