The Psychometric Properties of the Cyberbullying Scale among University Students

Abstract

The current research aims to develop a specific dimension-based scale to measure cyberbullying among university students in the Arab context, particularly in Saudi Arabia. The aim is to provide researchers in psychological measurement and behavioral sciences with appropriate standards for measuring cyberbullying. The final version of the scale consists of (21) items distributed across three main dimensions: Psychological dimension, Academic dimension, and Social dimension. The descriptive psychometric approach was employed, and the sample consisted of (110) voluntary participants from the College of Education at King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia. Their ages ranged from 18 to 26 years, with an average age of 23.81 and a standard deviation of 3.62. The validity and reliability of the scale were calculated, and the results showed high levels of validity at a significance level of (0.01), indicating the scale's validity in measuring what it was designed to measure. The reliability coefficients were also high, indicating that the Cyberbullying Scale possesses a high degree of both validity and reliability.