Investigation of cyberbullying behaviors of sports

For the purpose of the research, the relational survey model was used in the study. In addition, due to the fact that due diligence will be made, the study has a descriptive nature. While the universe of the research consists of sports spectators throughout the country, the sample consists of 1029 participants who are randomly selected and sports spectators in different branches. The personal information form developed by the researcher and the verbal bullying, physical bullying and cyber bullying behaviors scale of sports spectators developed by Karaca (2019) were used as data collection tools in the research. Descriptive analysis, Independent Simple T-test and One Way ANOVA tests were used in the analysis of the data. According to the results of the research, bullying and cyberbullying levels of male audience members were found to be higher than female audiences. Looking at the branches, it was seen that the bullying and cyberbullying levels of football spectators were higher than other branches. It has been observed that the level of bullying and cyberbullying decreases as the age increases, the level of work status increases and the level of education increases, and the bullying and cyberbullying levels of single audience members are higher than married audience members. It has been determined that the spectators who are members of the fan association and the spectators who go to the away matches frequently have higher levels of bullying and cyberbullying. A significant difference was found between the type of competition follow-up and the frequency of watching the competition, and bullying and cyberbullying. In addition, it was concluded that the type of social media usage device, the way of watching the match and the purpose of using social media did not affect the level of bullying and cyberbullying.