Abstract
THE PREDICTIVE EFFECT ON BEHAVIOR TO COPING WITH CYBERBULLYING OF GENERAL SELF-EFFICACY
The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive effect on coping with cyber bullying of general self-efficacy in adolescents. The study group was composed of 277 high school education students. The research data were collected via using General Self-Efficacy and the Scale Coping with Cyber Bullying. The analysis of the data was made by using the Pearson correlation coefficient and the structural equality model. As a result of the study, it was observed that there were significant positive relationships between general self-efficacy and the social support, seeking help, to fight and online safety sub-dimensions of coping with cyber bullying. Another result of the study was that general self-efficacy positive predicted the coping with cyber bullying.
Keywords
Adolescents, general self-efficacy, coping with cyber bullying.