The Reasons Behind the Forms of Cyberbullying Teenagers Choose of Senior High School in Surakarta
Siti Nurina Hakim1, Dara Febrian Chita Prastiwi2

Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Indonesia1,2

Abstract

Teenagers are very familiar with various social media platforms that are around us. Bullying is often obtained from social media, so they are triggered to carry out various forms of bullying which they also know through social media. Social media is very effective for teenagers to bully. This research is to find out the reasons for choosing forms of cyberbullying by adolescents in Surakarta. The approach is phenomenological qualitative. Six informants, characterized by: age 15-19 years, high school students, and internet users for social media, access 4-5 hours per day. Data collection by interview, analyzed descriptive qualitative. The result is that the most forms of cyberbullying carried out by high school youth in Surakarta are outing and trickery. The reason is extreme hatred of victims and dislike of excessive victim behavior, likes to show off. Outing is used by men, trickery by women. This result serves as a lesson for parents, teachers and youth that bullying for any reason uploaded on social media needs to be prevented, and will be subject to the ITE Law.

Keywords: Reasons- Cyberbullying- Teenagers

Topic: Psychology