Cyberbullying among Malaysian youth: the case of Selangor

This study aims to identify Selangor youth’s engagement in cyberbullying activities. The study was carried out by a cross-sectional survey of 400 youths in four districts in Selangor namely, Hulu Langat, Serdang, Sabak Bernam and Klang. The study found that Selangor youth’s engagement in cyberbullyi...

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Main Authors: Saharrudin, Nurul Farhana, Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati, Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi, Ahmad, Aminah, Abdullah, Haslinda
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Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2019
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81068/1/CYBERBULLY.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.810682020-09-10T03:49:06Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81068/ Cyberbullying among Malaysian youth: the case of Selangor Saharrudin, Nurul Farhana Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Ahmad, Aminah Abdullah, Haslinda This study aims to identify Selangor youth’s engagement in cyberbullying activities. The study was carried out by a cross-sectional survey of 400 youths in four districts in Selangor namely, Hulu Langat, Serdang, Sabak Bernam and Klang. The study found that Selangor youth’s engagement in cyberbullying activities to be at low level. The findings also indicated that the most common form of cyberbullying activity committed among this particular group of youth was to block others in instant messaging application such like WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger and etc. Several recommendations are made to overcome this social problem, quite a few actions were highlighted to take into consideration such as parental monitoring, cyber education, counseling, media awareness and campaign and the role of internet providers. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2019-03 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81068/1/CYBERBULLY.pdf Saharrudin, Nurul Farhana and Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati and Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi and Ahmad, Aminah and Abdullah, Haslinda (2019) Cyberbullying among Malaysian youth: the case of Selangor. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9 (3). pp. 1060-1070. ISSN 2222 -6990 https://hrmars.com/papers/detail/IJARBSS/5761 10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i3/5761
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description This study aims to identify Selangor youth’s engagement in cyberbullying activities. The study was carried out by a cross-sectional survey of 400 youths in four districts in Selangor namely, Hulu Langat, Serdang, Sabak Bernam and Klang. The study found that Selangor youth’s engagement in cyberbullying activities to be at low level. The findings also indicated that the most common form of cyberbullying activity committed among this particular group of youth was to block others in instant messaging application such like WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger and etc. Several recommendations are made to overcome this social problem, quite a few actions were highlighted to take into consideration such as parental monitoring, cyber education, counseling, media awareness and campaign and the role of internet providers.
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author Saharrudin, Nurul Farhana
Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati
Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi
Ahmad, Aminah
Abdullah, Haslinda
spellingShingle Saharrudin, Nurul Farhana
Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati
Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi
Ahmad, Aminah
Abdullah, Haslinda
Cyberbullying among Malaysian youth: the case of Selangor
author_facet Saharrudin, Nurul Farhana
Ahmad Ghazali, Akmar Hayati
Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi
Ahmad, Aminah
Abdullah, Haslinda
author_sort Saharrudin, Nurul Farhana
title Cyberbullying among Malaysian youth: the case of Selangor
title_short Cyberbullying among Malaysian youth: the case of Selangor
title_full Cyberbullying among Malaysian youth: the case of Selangor
title_fullStr Cyberbullying among Malaysian youth: the case of Selangor
title_full_unstemmed Cyberbullying among Malaysian youth: the case of Selangor
title_sort cyberbullying among malaysian youth: the case of selangor
publisher Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
publishDate 2019
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81068/1/CYBERBULLY.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81068/
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