Abstract
Hearing the Victimsâ?? Voices: The Impact of Enhancing Empathic Skills Training on Reducing Cyberbullying among Adolescents
Author(s): Ashraf Atta MS Salem* and Mosaad Abu Al DiyarThe current study investigates the impact of developing empathy skills on reducing cyberbullying in a sample of adolescents using the single experimental group design. Participants were 50 adolescents in the intermediate stage (average age 15.1 ± SD 1.5 years). The measures used include the empathy scale and cyberbullying scale. The quasi-experimental research design has been adopted to achieve the study objectives. Results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group in the pretesting and the post-testing of the empathy scale (the average of the pretesting was higher). It has been shown that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group in the pretesting and the post-testing of cyberbullying scale (average of the posttesting was higher). In addition, it has been revealed that there were no significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group in the post-testing and the follow-up measurement on empathy and cyberbullying scales (after two months of post-testing of study measures).