Investigation of the Relationship Between University Students' Cyberbullying Attitude and Social Media Attitude

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between cyber bullying and social media attitudes of Faculty of Communication Sciences students. At the same time, it was investigated whether students' cyberbullying attitudes and social media attitudes differ according to demographic variables. The sample of the study consists of 231 students studying at Anadolu University Faculty of Communication Sciences in 2018-2019 academic year. 117 (50.6%) of the participants were female students and 114 (49.4%) were male students. Relational survey model was used as the research model. Personal Information Form, Cyber Bullying Attitude Scale and Social Media Attitude Scale were used as data collection tools. According to the results of the research, there was a negative relationship between cyber bullying attitudes and social media attitudes of the students. There were positive and negative relationships between cyber bullying sub-dimensions and social media sub-dimensions. There was a significant difference between cyberbullying attitude and gender, frequency of social media use. A significant difference was found between social media attitude and frequency of daily internet usage and frequency of daily social media usage.