Effects of Cyberbullying to the Academic Performance of Grade 8 Students in Saint Roch Academy
Background of the Study Cyberbullying is the purposeful, prolonged insulting, threatening, defamatory, or intentionally harasses of another person utilizing modern communication tools.(Hinduja & Patchin , 2019). The extent of the dissemination of information is unpredictable due to the numerous possibilities and the speed of the modern communication tools. The perpretrators , the so-called “cyberbullies” can act anonymously and frequently believe themselves to be safe as a result of this anonymity.
Cyberbullying is an intrusion into private life that occurs continuously and the perpretrator’s identity is presented as being substantially different from who they really are. The use of modern technology and other social media platforms to target and threaten another person. Threats made online including such as combative tweets, texts or messages are all taken into account. The same goes for publishing private information, images or videos with the intention of hurting and humiliating someone else.(The Nemours Foundation,1995-2022)
Statement of the Problem The primary purpose of this study is to find out the effects of cyberbullying to the academic performance of Grade 8 students of Saint Roch Academy. Specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions; 1. What is the demographic profile of the Grade 8 students? Age Sex 2. What is the prevalent case and effects of cyberbullying to the population being studied?
Significance of the Study The purpose of this study was to have an impact the foolowing : The teachers- to be aware of any problems that arises of the classroom. Students- to be aware that proper Internet usage is required and to keep their personal information private. Future researchers may draw inspiration from this study for their work. They can improve a concept by learning about it
Methodology This research descriptive and correlational research design describes and investigates the effects of cyberbullying of the participants being studied. A quantitative study that relies on measuring variables using a numerical system , analyzing these measurements using any of variety of statistical models, and reporting relationships and associations among the studied variable.(APA Dictionary of Psychology).