The Relationship Between Cyberbullying Behavior and Coping with Stress among Students: A Case Study of a Nursing College in Northeastern Thailand
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cyberbullying behavior, coping with stress, nursing studentsAbstract
Cyberbullying is the use of online media to violate the rights of others, and it is especially common among nursing students. Cyberbullying causes stress and affects students' learning. This descriptive research aimed to study the relationship between cyberbullying behavior and students’ ability to cope with stress at a college of cursing in the northeast of Thailand. The sample consisted of 220 first- to fourth-year nursing students studying in the 2023 academic year who were selected by simple random sampling. Data were collected from November 2023 to January 2024. The research instruments were the cyberbullying behavior questionnaire and the stress coping or coping with stress questionnaire. The content validity of the questionnaires were validated by experts with an index of content validity of 1 and 0.93, respectively, and the reliability testing using Cronbach's alpha coefficients showed an acceptable reliability of 0.92 and 0.95, respectively. The data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, and the relationships of the studied variables was analyzed using Pearson's product moment correlation coefficients.
The research results found that the sample group had a moderate mean score for being bullied online, with being sent harassing or slanderous messages being the most common occurrence. The sample group had a moderate level of coping with stress. When looking for a relationship, it was found that being bullied online had a statistically significant positive relationship with coping with stress among students (r = .539, p <.001). Educational institutions can use the results of the study as supporting information for creating programs for coping with stress to reduce potential cyberbullying.
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