IMPACT OF CYBER BULLYING ON WOMEN EMOTIONAL HEALTH
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The internet has become an increasingly popular medium among youth. Youth in particular, use the internet for communicative purposes and, in addition, one of the emerging risks of communication on the internet for youth is cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is a repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cells phones and other electronic devices. It is a systematic abuse of power which occurs through the use of information and communication technologies. The main objective of the study is to find the level of impact of cyber bullying among the victims and the respondents attitude to overcome from cyber bullying. The various tools used for the study are simple percentage analysis, descriptive analysis, ANOVA, t-Test, and rank analysis. The primary data for the study has been collected from 150 respondents through a structured questionnaire using purposive sampling technique. The analysis practically reveals that majority of the respondents have a moderate impact on stress due to cyber bullying and majority of the respondents will ignore such problem when they come up with cyber bullying.
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