How Students Apply Moral Philosophy to Evaluate Cyberbullying Events

• In Event: Paper Session on Research Related to Moral Development and Education

Abstract

To explore the relationship between moral philosophy and cyberbullying intention, we launched a survey of 415 students. The scenario-type questionnaire involved in three cyberbullying events (harassment, denigration and exclusion) was employed in this study. The result showed that students adopted a mixed moral philosophy to evaluate cyberbullying events. Moral equity and egoism are the most and least applied moral codes. In addition, five moral philosophies can conjointly forecast the intentions in three scenarios with 42% to 57% variances, separately. Among them, moral equity is the common predictors in all scenarios. Based on the results, the researchers provided some suggestions for future study and the way to reduce the cyberbullying.

Authors

• Chiao Ling Huang, East China Normal University

• Sining Zhang, Beijing Offcn Education & Technology Co.,Ltd

• 淑晴Shu Ching 楊Yang, National Sun Yat-Sen University