Anger aggression and cyberbullying: US and German young adults' perspective

ABSTRACT

Cyberbullying is still a phenomenon that has gained global recognition over the past couple of years but still requires more research to fully understand the scope of the issue so that programs and strategies that effectively minimize the occurrence and the effect on individuals. Today's GenX are more intuned to cyber than the millennials with constant exposure to technology with such things a Metaverse, online learning, online classes during COVID, video chat, skype, Instagram, Tik Tok, etc. The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the growing phenomenon of cyberbullying from the young adult perspective on anger aggression and age relation to cyberbullying behavior by comparing the experience of 45 participants each from the US and Germany's adolescent and young adult experiences. In order to gain an understanding of the young adult perspective a survey was conducted using questions from Cyber-Aggression Questionnaire for Adolescents (CYBA), Oleweus Bullying Survey, and the Youth Truth Student Survey and young adults ages 18 to 21 were recruited to participate. The QTB and CBI scales were used to score responses. SPSS was used to evaluate the data. Results showed a significance with relation to age being associated with the anger aggression stages and cyberbullying behavior, p < .05;and age as influencer of cyberbullying behavior, p <.05;and learning to control anger as a mitigator of cyberbullying p,.01. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)