Cyberbullying in university students before and after COVID-19 lockdown
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cyberbullying, college students, affect, interpersonal relationships, Covid-19Abstract
Cyberbullying in the university context is a little-studied reality. The aim of this study is to analyse cyberbullying in university students before and after the lockdown due to Covid-19, establishing the roles of cyberbullying, the affects experienced, peer relations and social use of the internet. We have used a non-experimental, ambispective, descriptive and inferential cross-sectional design, employing three standardized and validated questionnaires, and one ad-hoc, in order to assess the influence of the lockdown. 586 students (MAge = 22.67; SD = 5.75; 81.1% female) of Degrees and Masters at the University of Granada (Spain) participated, mainly from Social and Legal Sciences (44.20%) and Health Sciences (28.31%). Before the lockdown, 16.2% of the participants were cyber-victimized, 6.7% had bullied, 8.4% were victims/aggressors and 68.8% had no role. During the lockdown, the percentages of victims and victims/aggressors decreased, while the percentage of aggressors rose. We found there to be an influence of sex, age and positive affects in the roles before lockdown (p < .05), and of age, negative affects and peer relations during the lockdown (p < .05). The victims were those who experienced the most negative effects and those who received most support from their fellow students during the lockdown. The decrease in victimization during the lockdown may be related to the greater support received by the victims, which acted as a protecting factor. The results show that emphasis should still be placed on a positive, non-harmful and responsible use of mobile telephones among young people. The university should promote a positive and inclusive institutional climate that helps to intervene, but above all to prevent cyberbullying.
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