دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی زورگویی سایبری در محیط دانشگاه. ارتباط با محیط خانواده و هوش هیجانی - الزویر 2019

Currently, the enormous quantity of research on cyberbullying during adolescence contrasts with those studies carried out in the university environment. The objective of this study was to analyze the predictive capacity of family environment and emotional intelligence with regard to cyberbullying in university students. The European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionnaire, the Social Climate in the Family Scale and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale-24 were administered to a sample of 1,282 university students (594 men and 688 women) between the ages of 18 and 46 (M = 21.65; DT = 4.25). The results revealed that a deteriorated family environment increases the probability of being both a victim and an aggressor of cyberbullying, whereas a favorable family environment decreases this probability. Likewise, the dimensions of emotional intelligence were predictive variables of participation as victims or aggressors of cyberbullying. The conclusions of this study are of special relevance given that they do not only bring about a problem that has a little knowledge of the university setting, but because they also note that intervention programs should consider the influence of the family environment during the early adulthood period, as well as the relevance of emotional level of these university students.

 Discussion and conclusions

The objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between family atmosphere and EI with respect to cyberbullying, in both victims as well as aggressors of the university setting. Most studies have corroborate the close relationships existing between personal and family variables and traditional school bullying, however there have been few studies that refer specifically to cyberbullying. Similarly, it is even more difficult to find studies on cyberbullying in the university setting. This study attempts to address this situation, assessing the predictive capacity of personal and family based variables on cyberbullying. First, it should be noted that the results of this study reveal that 18.6% of the sample of students that were analyzed referred to having suffered from cyberbullying by their peers over the past two months and 19.4% declared that they had engaged in some cyberbullying behavior with their peers. This data coincides with that found in prior studies that have found a similar prevalence in a university sample (Dilmac, 2009; Finn, 2004). On the other hand, the data has confirmed that specific family variables are predictors of cyberbullying both regarding victims as well as bullies, supporting hypothesis 1 of this study. Thus, the results reveal that there is a greater probability of being a victim as Morality-Religiousness and Conflict increase in the family nucleus, while the probability of being a victim is lower when there is an increased Intellectual-Cultural Development, Expressiveness and Cohesion in the family environment. These results are in line with those from other studies that have highlighted how a deteriorated family environment may become a risk factor for being victimized, while the quality of the relationships between the family members protects the student from possible victimization by his/her peers (Estévez et al., 2008) since he/she will have family resources that may act as a protective factor against cyberbullying.