Self-esteem, empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults
This paper investigated the impacts of self-esteem and empathy on cyber bullies, victims and bystanders. Additionally, it also examined their impacts on emotional responses experienced, and actions taken by the perpetrators, victims and bystanders. Self-administered surveys were used to gather data...
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| description | This paper investigated the impacts of self-esteem and empathy on cyber bullies, victims and bystanders. Additionally, it also examined their impacts on emotional responses experienced, and actions taken by the perpetrators, victims and bystanders. Self-administered surveys were used to gather data from a large sample of 1263 young adults, mostly university students in Malaysia (Mage = 20.9 years; SD = 1.22). The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Toronto Empathy Scale were used to measure self-esteem and empathy, respectively. Binary logistic regressions revealed no significant impacts of self-esteem and empathy on the participants, regardless of their roles. However, self-esteem was found to have significant relationships with victims’ feeling angry and reporting a cyberbullying incident. As for bystanders, self-esteem also had significant relationships with feeling angry, sad, victim-pity and defending the victims. Empathy had no significant relationships with any of the actions and emotional responses for bullies, victims and bystanders. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-223622019-09-17T00:45:46Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/22362/ Self-esteem, empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults Balakrishnan, Vimala Fernandez, Terence QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science This paper investigated the impacts of self-esteem and empathy on cyber bullies, victims and bystanders. Additionally, it also examined their impacts on emotional responses experienced, and actions taken by the perpetrators, victims and bystanders. Self-administered surveys were used to gather data from a large sample of 1263 young adults, mostly university students in Malaysia (Mage = 20.9 years; SD = 1.22). The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and Toronto Empathy Scale were used to measure self-esteem and empathy, respectively. Binary logistic regressions revealed no significant impacts of self-esteem and empathy on the participants, regardless of their roles. However, self-esteem was found to have significant relationships with victims’ feeling angry and reporting a cyberbullying incident. As for bystanders, self-esteem also had significant relationships with feeling angry, sad, victim-pity and defending the victims. Empathy had no significant relationships with any of the actions and emotional responses for bullies, victims and bystanders. Elsevier 2018 Article PeerReviewed Balakrishnan, Vimala and Fernandez, Terence (2018) Self-esteem, empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults. Telematics and Informatics, 35 (7). pp. 2028-2037. ISSN 0736-5853, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2018.07.006 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2018.07.006>. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2018.07.006 doi:10.1016/j.tele.2018.07.006 |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Balakrishnan, Vimala Fernandez, Terence Self-esteem, empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults |
| title | Self-esteem, empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults |
| title_full | Self-esteem, empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults |
| title_fullStr | Self-esteem, empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Self-esteem, empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults |
| title_short | Self-esteem, empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults |
| title_sort | self esteem empathy and their impacts on cyberbullying among young adults |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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