Cyber-Agression Questionnaire for Adolescents (CYBA): Validity and Reliability Study

Cyber-aggression is defined as intentional harm carried out through electronic means to an individual or a group of individuals of any age, who perceive(s) such acts as offensive, derogatory, harmful or unwanted. Cyber aggression, which brings along the psychological implications as well as the necessity of law enforcements for the people getting involved in, shows an increase with the global increase in social media and internet usage. However, there is not any Turkish scale developed to measure Cyber Aggression, which is differenciated from cyberbullying and is considered to be a broader and more complex phenomenon. In this respect, the Turkish adaptation of Cyber Aggression Scale for Adolescents; which is originally developed by Alvarez-Garcia, Barreiro-Collazo, Nunez ve Dobarro (2016); was performed and its validity / reliability was examined. The study was carried out with 200 participants taken into consideration. The participants were 102 female and 98 male students aged between 12–18 years old. In the first stage of the study, linguistic equivalence of the scale was examined; validity and reliability analyzes were performed after the analysis was found to have linguistic equivalence. In the exploratory factor analysis, Bartlet’s probablity value (p <.05) and the KMO value of 0.855 were determined and the data set was found to be suitable for factor analysis. In confirmatory factor analysis, factor weight values related to 14 scale items were determined as (0.55; 0.97). The internal consistency coefficients of the scale items were between .79 and .94. According to these results, it can be said that the scale is a valid and reliable measurement tool