| dc.description.abstract | Cyberbullying have become more and more serious because of the popularity of the Internet, which has a far-reaching impact on the youth community. The immature mind of teenagers is prone to impulsive speech and behavior in the virtual world with less care and restraint to result interpersonal friction. The openness of Internet also allow teenagers to receive unscreened messages, including misconceptions and knowledge. If there is a lack of education related to online literacy, teenagers will be very likely to be at a loss when they encounter a cyberbullying incident.
In the past, the research on cyberbullying focused on the cognition and help pipeline. However, in clinical practice teaching, teenagers who receive cognition education in cyberbullying that most of bully were not change their behavior and victims were reluctant to seek help. Base in the above findings, the study of cyberbullying prevention teaching transfer target to bystanders, using a large number of cyberbullying bystanders to change atmosphere and to reduce hurt for cyberbullying event.
This study explores the behavioral factors of cyberbullying bystanders, and investigate whether empathy and parenting styles will be the background factors for cyberbullying bystanders to engage in positive, negative, and bullying behaviors and the self-efficacy of positive behavior affects negative behavior and strengthens bullying behavior. This study used questionnaires and online courses to survey 137 second-year students in a country in Taoyuan City, Taiwan. The results are as follows: 1. Empathy can promote bystanders to choose positive behavior. 2. Parental care can promote bystanders to choose positive behavior and reduce the motivation of negative behavior. 3. The self-efficacy of positive behavior inhibits bystanders from choosing negative behavior. The results show that empathy and parenting style are important factors influencing teenagers’ behavior as cyberbullying bystanders, and at the same time, they can reduce the behavioral motivation of bystanders on negative behaviors. | en_US |