The university students' experience with cyberbullying through social media in the Czech Republic and China

Yu HE

Master's thesis

The university students' experience with cyberbully

Abstract:

This thesis explored the relationships among social media, and cyberbullying experiences among students from China's and the Czech Republic's universities after covid pandemic. Aiming to map the situation of university students' experiences and opinions on cyberbullying through the mix design research. In the first part, the questionnaires were collected. A sample involved 182 university students in total, 90 Chinese participants who study in the Czech Republic or China, as well as 65 Czech participants and 27 other nationality participants who study in the Czech Republic. Investigated situation of the social media usage, cyberbullying experiences and opinions on its frequency, reasons, anonymity, covid pandemic influences, bully-victim situation, characteristic, duration, and coping mechanism. In the second part, the semi-structured interviews were held with three Czech participants, two of them experienced cyberbullying at primary school, and another one got cyberbullied during the university studies. The results are consistency with the exiting findings of this field with extending the situation of Chinese perspective, compared the differences opinions between the witnesses and targets of cyberbullying, and explained the cyberbullying process based on lived experiences.

Abstract:

This thesis explored the relationships among social media, and cyberbullying experiences among students from China's and the Czech Republic's universities after covid pandemic. Aiming to map the situation of university students' experiences and opinions on cyberbullying through the mix design research. In the first part, the questionnaires were collected. A sample involved 182 university students in total, 90 Chinese participants who study in the Czech Republic or China, as well as 65 Czech participants and 27 other nationality participants who study in the Czech Republic. Investigated situation of the social media usage, cyberbullying experiences and opinions on its frequency, reasons, anonymity, covid pandemic influences, bully-victim situation, characteristic, duration, and coping mechanism. In the second part, the semi-structured interviews were held with three Czech participants, two of them experienced cyberbullying at primary school, and another one got cyberbullied during the university studies. The results are consistency with the exiting findings of this field with extending the situation of Chinese perspective, compared the differences opinions between the witnesses and targets of cyberbullying, and explained the cyberbullying process based on lived experiences.

Keywords

cyberbullying, university student, social media, cultural background

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 4. 12. 2023

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: Mgr. Jiří Kropáč, Ph.D., LL.M.

Palacký University Olomouc

Faculty of Education

Master programme / field:
Research and Development in Educational Studies / Research and Development in Educational Studies