Personality Traits and Dynamics of Cyberbullying: Basis for a Proposed Intervention Program

Abstract

The descriptive quantitative research aimed to look into the
personality traits, dynamics and effects of Cyberbullying among the High
School students of St. Scholastica’ s Academy Marikina School Year 2014
-2015. Slovin’s Formula and purposive sampling techniques were utilized
in identifying and selecting participants who are knowledgeable about
and experienced the study of interest. The Self-made Cyberbullying Survey
and the High School Personality Questionnaire, a self–report inventory
that measures 14 personality characteristics were used as data gathering
tools. Further, frequency and percentage, mean, sten score, Chi-square
test, ANOVA and t -test were used for data analysis. From the results of
the study, it was assessed that cyberbully participants have a “very low”
to “low” experience of the forms of Cyberbullying while the cyberbullied
participants have a “low” to “moderate” experience yet both groups of
participants still experience the negative effect. Accordingly, flaming is
the most commonly used way to victimize the object of Cyberbullying, and
the foremost reasons why the participants engage into Cyberbullying are
for the bullies to have fun and to avoid face to face confrontation. Hence,
the participants felt sad and became conscious of their behavior after the
Cyberbullying experience. Thus, the bully participants are more assertive,
dominant, individualistic and self-reliant while the bullied participants are
submissive, conforming, insecure and self-indulgent.