Article review #2

Exploring the effects of cyberbullying

Dalton Lewis II

11/16/24

                  The article, “Cyberbullying and Cyberbullicide Ideation Among Jordanian College Students”, closely relates to the principles of social sciences by focusing on the overall psychological impact that cyberbullying has on the perpetrators and victims. This was done by focusing on Jordanian student’s behaviors and social interactions to examine how they were impacted don cyberbullying.

 In this article a few questions that were asked were:

1.  How prevalent is cyberbullying among Jordanian college students?

2. How does cyberbullying victimization influence psychological outcomes, such as depression, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation?

3. What level of awareness do students have regarding cyberbullying, its victims, and its perpetrators?

What was the study and its findings?

The team’s method on studying how cyberbullying impacted Jordanian students was surveyed based. Anis Brik (2024) stated, “The study sample comprised 1000 Jordanian students representing12 Jordanian governorates. The sample was selected randomly from different colleges and levels. Of these, 454 (45.4%) were males, and 546 (54.6%) were females. The sample comprised 496 students (49.6%) from science colleges and 504 students (50.4%) from other colleges. Around a quarter of the sample (26%) were exposed to bullying, 9% knew victims of bullying on the university campus, and 36% outside the campus. Around a quarter (26%) of the sample experienced violence” (2024). Furthermore, this survey consisted of 15 questions in which 7 were of cyberbullying victimization, perpetration and knowledge of perpetrators, 3 were of the violences they are currently experiencing or experienced and the last 5 were about suicidal thoughts. Therefore, in A.Brik (2024) findings of  the survey, they stated, “The sample size was almost distributed equally between science colleges and other colleges (49.6 vs. 50.4%). The vast majority of students reported praying (95%), more than a quarter (26%) engaged in fights and were exposed to cyberbullying. Less than 10percent of the sample (9.3%) reported knowledge about cyberbullying, and (35.8%) reported it outside the university campus. Moreover, more than 10 percent of the sample (13.5%) reported knowledge about cyberbullying perpetrators, and (33%) reported it outside the university campus. About half of the sample (45.3%) reported depression or hopelessness, no interest in life or life enjoyment (45.3%), a willingness to die (32.8%) or cyberbullicide (30%)” (2024).

How does this relate to class and its contributions to society?

            This article relates to the concepts that are studied in this class’s power points in class because they both talk about the motives behind a person and social impacts that occur by the negligence of one’s behavior. In addition, this article also relates to the challenges of marginalized groups by stating, the impact cyberbullying has on different ages, genders and race groups among the universities that are all experiencing cyberbullying at an intense rate. Lastly, the overall contribution this study has to the studies of society is to inform and bring notice to the public on the severe impact that cyberbullying has done to the students.

In conclusion, cyberbullying should be paid more attention to because it is something that needs to be fixed immediately. The online behavior of the cyberbullies are unjust and puts their victims at risk of suicidal thoughts, loneliness and depression. Therefore, practicing online safety and asking for help in severe situations should be a priority for every user even if they haven’t experienced this. This alone will not stop users from experiencing online bullying but will help users be aware and know what to do whenever the time comes.

References

Brik, A. B., Khelifa, M., & Al-Badayneh, D. (2024). Cyberbullying and Cyberbullicide Ideation Among Jordanian College Students. International Journal of Cyber Criminology. https://cybercrimejournal.com/menuscript/index.php/cybercrimejournal/article/view/329/98