Development of Secondary School and High School Forms of The Cyberbullying Threat Level Scale

Abstract

The aim of this research is to develop the secondary and high school forms of the cyberbullying threat level scale for students who are cyberbullying victims, bullies or witnesses. Data were collected from 304 middle school and 296 high school students. Content validity and linguistic validity were established by expert review and; construct validity was established by exploratory factor analysis. Cronbach Alpha analysis was performed to test the internal consistency reliability coefficient of the scales; Item-total correlations were calculated to test item reliability. Each of the scales with three basic dimensions (victimization, bullying and witnessing); three sub-dimensions (frequency of experiencing the problem, level of perceived seriousness, level of negative effect felt) and 17 items found to be valid and reliable by the first psychometric findings.