DEVELOPMENT OF CYBERBULLY COPING STRATEGY FRAMEWORK: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Abstract

A number of studies on cyberbullying have been conducted by scholars including in Malaysia to understand and evaluate the trend of cyberbullying phenomenon among the higher learning institutions’ students. Most of the articles on cyberbullying comes from psychological and counselling researcher but there is a need to look it from the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sides as it will provide a holistic view on this matter. Being able to create cross disciplines between various fields of knowledge will probably provide better understanding and hopefully could formulate solutions in coping this situation. The definitions, theoretical motivation and cyberbully coping model have been explored with the investigation of security and privacy features in social media and the legal aspect for better understanding of coping strategy for cyberbully. Therefore, conceptual framework for cyberbully coping strategy has been proposed in coping of cyberbully.