Investigation of siber vaccinations and awareness of amateurs and professional footballers

Amateur or professional football players who play football, one of the areas of great interest to people, are also victims of cyberbullying. In this study, it was aimed to examine the attitudes of amateur and professional football players regarding their cyber victimization and awareness according to various variables. Within the scope of the study, the attitudes towards cyber victimization and awareness of amateur and professional football players will be examined and investigated in detail. The universe of the study consists of footballers playing in amateur and professional football clubs 334 of these players were randomly selected and included in the study. The questionnaire forms are personal information form consisting of 10 questions and 14 Cyber Sensitivity Scale 14 with 14 items and "Cyber Victimization Scale" with 24 items. The 14-item "Cyber Sensitivity Scale" developed by Tanrıkulu et al. and the 24-item "Cyber Victimization Scale" developed by Tanrıkulu et al. were used. SPSS 22.0 package program will be used for data analysis. The Cronbach alpha test will be applied to determine the reliability of the data collected first. One-way analysis of variance (Anova), t-test will be applied to determine the difference between frequency and percentage distributions and some independent variables related to players (gender, age, marital status etc.). The result The age of football, occupation, classification group, age of football, internet use matches have no effect on cyber bullying sensitivity. 21-25 years old players are more sensitive to cyber bullying. Virtual victimization of football players, single, student, 16-20 age, secondary education, 7-9 hours of internet and amateur football players playing in the league has been seen more than the virtual victimization. When the variables are examined, it can be thought that this group has more access to internet and more cyber victimization because they use more internet. Keywords: Football, Cyberbullying, cyberbullying sensibility