Investigation of the relationship between family sense of coherence levels of adolescents and levels of cyberbullying and victimization

In the study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between adolescents' level of family sense of coherence and cyberbullying and victimization levels. The population of the research consists of 15,081 adolescents attending the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades of public high schools in the Sakarya Provincial Directorate of National Education Adapazarı district in the 2020-2021 academic year. The sample of the study consisted of 501 adolescents (363 girls and 138 boys) with a 5% margin of error. The research data were collected with the "Personal Information Form", "Cyber Victim and Bullying Scale (CVBS)" and "Family Sense of Coherence Scale (FSCS)". Quantitative model method was used in the research and Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Independent Groups T Test, Mann Whitney-U Test, Kruskal Wallis-H Test, Bonferroni test, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression were used in the analysis of the data. A negative correlation was found between the Understandability, Significance and total scores of the Family Sense of Coherence Level Scale and the Linguistic Bullying, Identity Concealment, Cyber Forgery and total scores of the Cyber Victim and Bullying Scale sub-dimensions. Finally, it is seen that the Comprehensibility, Significance and total scores of the Family Sense of Coherence Level Scale sub-dimensions (negative effect) have a statistically significant effect on predicting cyberbullying and victimization behaviors in adolescents. In this context, the research findings were interpreted by examining the relevant literature and suggestions were made.