The Relationship between the Usage Patterns and Vulnerability of Cyber Harassment in Adolescents:The Case of Facebook in Indonesia

• Main Authors: Cindy Ayu Agustin, 辛蒂
• Other Authors: Tao, Shen-Ping
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d69g6b

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 新聞學系 === 102 === This thesis discusses the usage patterns of social networking sites (in this case, it is focusing on Facebook) by adolescents, and these patterns’ relationship with the vulnerabilities towards being online victim using two main theories; those are routine activity theory and lifestyle exposure theory. There are three variables in this study: online lifestyle, online guardianship, and vulnerability being a victim of cyber harassment as dependent variables. It begins with hypothesis that online lifestyle and online guardianship have an effect on the vulnerability of being a victim of cyber harassment in adolescents; in addition, gender has an effect toward the possibility of being a victim of cyber harassment in adolescents, such as online bullying, unwanted sexual material and solicitation, also cyber identity theft and cyber impersonation. This research uses quantitative method with descriptive design. The sampling technique used is non-probability sampling. Sample selection technique is conducted according to consideration of the researcher. Questionnaires are spread to 500 respondents. The respondents in this research are high school students (male and female) in Jakarta, Indonesia between 12-18 years old or admitted in the age and have a Facebook account. This study uses factorial design to test the hypotheses. The results of this study indicate that online has a significant and positive relationship to cyber victimization in adolescents. Online guardians have negative significant to cyber victimization. Furthermore, if the online lifestyle is higher, the cyber victimization is also higher, and if the online guardianship is lower, it will increase the cyber victimization. Moreover, there is no difference in significant level between male and female of being a victim of cyber harassment.