The Relationship between Bullying victimization experience and Internet Addiction among University Student

• Main Authors: Pin-Wei Liu, 劉品薇
• Other Authors: 陸玓玲
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77642006674139854152

碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 公共衛生學系碩士班 === 102 === Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to explore the relations between bullying victimization and internet addiction among university students in Central Taiwan. Methods: Using cluster sampling, selecting 25 classes randomly from two universities in Central Taiwan. 1152 students agreed to participate and administrated questionnaire at classroom during November and December in 2012. We excluded incomplete questionnaires due to lost some information related to this study and remained 917 students as subjects to analysis. We used an anonymous structural questionnaire to collect information about Bullying Victimization Inventory and Chinese Internet Addiction Scale. Dependent variable was internet addiction that was derived from CIAS (range from 26-104). Higher than 64 was defined as internet adductors. Independent variable were bullying victimizations that included real world and cyber bullying victimization. The combinations of two kinds bullying victimization were no bullying victim experience, only cyber bullying, only real bullying and both. We also investigated different forms of bullying that included physical, verbal, and relationship bullying victimization. Control variables included sex, grade, part-time job, self-esteem, everyday internet usage time. We adopted multiple logistic regression and multiple linear regression to analysis data. Results:(1) bullying victimizations had higher likely to be internet addictor (odds ratio of only cyber bullying and both: 3.41and 2.22 ). (2) the internet addition score of cyber bullying victimizations were higher than real bullying. (3) All physical, verbal, and relationship bullying victimization showed positive significant associated with internet addiction score. Conclusion and suggestion: There were significances relationship between bullying victimization. and internet addiction. This results could provide information for education and health authorities while they developing related policy and educational program..