Dinamika Psikologis Korban Cyberbullying

The purpose of this study is to understand and describe the psychological dynamics of cyberbullying victims through forms of cyberbullying, the impact of cyerbullying and the way victims faces cyberbullying behavior. The method in this study is phenomenology qualitative while the data collection technique is conducted through interview, observation, and documentation. Data obtained from 5 informants with the criteria including adolescents aged 18-23, cyberbullying victims, social media users, and people who ever received cyberbullying more than once. Cyberbullying victims were identified using open questionnaires designed by researcher and willing to accept the informed consent. The result of this study showed that cyberbullying forms received by victims including flaming (online fights), harassment, denigration, exclusion and outing. The form of cyberbullying that received all of the victims is flaming. Cyberbullying has an impact on the victims such as self-closing, insecurity, feeling more sensitive, fear, friends diminished, sadness, insecurity, reduced access to social media, embarrassment, lack of confidence and in academic influences: lack of concentration. The way the victims overcomes cyberbullying by withdrawing from the environment, break the relationship with the perpetrators, shut herself, reduce uploads on social media accounts and re-telling the events experienced on trusted friends and also vent her emotions by crying. All of the victims received cyberbullying from the perpetrators with mostly of the languages that the perpetrators used are the Javanese language