Towards Excellence

(ISSN No. 0974-035X)
(An indexed refereed & peer-reviewed journal of higher education)
UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

AFGHAN ETHNICITIES AND INTERNET SURFING CORRELATE WITH DIGITAL BULLYING AND VICTIMIZATION

Authors:

Kapil Kumar, Mohammad Khalid Khawrin, Kamayani Mathur

Abstract:

Ethnicity is the first identification topic in Afghanistan. However, the last five decades brought changes in the social and political scenario of Afghanistan. Due to these reasons diagnosing the demerits of ethnicity is the first step for a solution. On the other hand, this study showed that the Afghan ethnicities such as Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and other minorities do not have significant differences among one another based on Digital Bullying and Digital Victimization of the sample. This research data  took from public and private universities of Kabul province through the standardized Revised Cyberbullying inventory II (RCBI-II) which was developed by Topcua & Erdur-Bakerb (Topcua and Erdur-Bakerb). There was 750 sample size who participated voluntarily through random sampling technique. Moreover, the sample consists of four groups of Ethnicities such as Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and other minorities (224, 267, 221, 38) respectively. A relationship was tested through Spearman's rho because data were not normally distributed. Besides that for finding differences among Afghan Ethnicities based on Digital Bullying and Digital Victimization one way ANOVA has been applied. All data were analyzed with the SPSS version 24. Furthermore, the result showed the relationship of internet surfing with digital bullying and digital victimization was positively significant with one another. On the other hand, the differences among Afghan Ethnicities were not significantly different from one another.  

Keywords:

Internet surfing, Afghan ethnicities, Cyberbullying, Cyber victimization, Ethnicity

Vol & Issue:

VOL.13, ISSUE No.4, December 2021