Assessment of Cyberbullying in 8th Grade Students in Aspect of Different Variables (Sample students, Sakarya/Adapazar？)

In this study is to investigate the cyber bullying status of the middle school students in the 8th grade of secondary school in the 2017-2018 academic year in Adapazar？ district of Sakarya province. The screening model was used for this purpose. In this study, 722 (386 female, 336 male) students studying in the 8th grade of state and private secondary schools in Adapazar？ district of Sakarya province were taken as a sample. The cyber bullying scale consisting of 24 items and one factor developed by Ar？cak, K？nay and Tanr？kulu (2012) was used in order to investigate the students' cyber bullying status. As a result of the analysis of the data obtained, it was seen that cyber bullying averages of female gender students were significantly lower than the cyberbullying averages of male gender students. It was determined that cyberbullying scores of 8th grade students studying in state and private secondary schools were similar. It was determined that there was a statistically significant difference between the students who have medium level internet use and cyber bullying average of students who have high level of internet usage skills in favor of students who have medium level internet use skills. It was found that there was a statistically significant difference between the daily internet usage times and the students' cyberbullying average scores. In addition, it was found that the cyber bullying scores of the students whose families had different incomes were similar