Thematic analysis of the components of the cyber bullying perpetrators among high school students: A text-based inductive -qualitative Study

Abstract

The purpose of this research was the thematic analysis of the components of the cyber bullying perpetrators among the high school students which could help to the prevention and reduction of cyber bullying among them. The method of the thematic analysis used in this study was based on the Attride-Stirling thematic analysis method, where the basic themes were identified inductively, and then the components of the cyber-bullying perpetrators were identified and extracted. Thematic analysis is a method of identifying, analyzing, and reporting the patterns in the qualitative data. The thematic analysis is done in different ways. In this study, the thematic network was utilized. The validity of the study was confirmed by the referee. To calculate the reliability, coding was done manually through studying the selected resources line-by-line, and then Holstein method was used. After studying, selecting and coding the articles related to the cyber-bullying perpetrators, 17 basic themes were extracted from the different sections of the articles. Of these basic themes, six organizing themes were extracted. A model was proposed based on the results of the thematic analysis of the components of the cyber bullying perpetrators to reduce the cyber bullying perpetrators among the students. This model categorized the components into 6 groups of the individual abilities, empathy, family environment, communication and social skills, aggression, and attitude.

Keywords

• thematic analysis
• cyber bullying perpetrators
• high school students