IJSRR -2019.pdf

Cyberbullying has been a serious issue for the past two decades in India. This issue keptincreasing due to the increased development of technology and their impacts on the teenagers.Cyberbullying is a pervasive public health issue, affecting 10% to 50% of adolescents and resultingin significant negative health outcomes. The study aimed to assess the Effectiveness of cyber therapyprogramme on management of cyber bullying experiences among adolescents. During the first week,survey was done by General Cyber-Bullying Questionnaire for the 1500 samples. Pre-test level of cyberbullying experiences assessed through questionnaire technique for 30 samples that were identified tobe with the issue. Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Hospital Anxiety &Depression scale, Adult Attachment Scale, DSM IV Depression Check list, Children’s LonelinessQuestionnaire (revised), UCLA Loneliness Scale was administered. Samples were administered withcyber therapy programme on management of cyber bullying experiences for four hours. Pamphlets weredistributed to all the study participants. Seventy four percentage of the study subjects experiencedmoderate cyber bullying in the pretest increased to 81 percentage in the post test. 25 percentage ofthe study subjects experienced severe cyber bullying in the pre test had a drastic fall to 2 percentagein the post test. After cyber therapy programme cyber bullying problem reduced considerably.