Cyber bullying and its relationship to moral thinking among secondary School students in the Jazan Education Directorate

This research aimed to know the level of cyber-bullying and moral thinking among secondary school students in the Jazan Education Department, in addition to the differences in them that may be attributed to the gender variable (male and female), as well as knowing the type of correlation between them. Where the two research tools consisted of a measure of electronic bullying, and another for moral reasoning prepared by the researcher, according to a sample of secondary school students in the Jazan Education Department, which numbered (381) male and female students. The results showed that the level of electronic bullying was low, while the level of moral reasoning was the results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) attributed to the gender variable in cyberbullying and moral thinking between male and female students. The research also found an inverse (negative) correlation between the level of bullying and the level of moral thinking among the research sample. Therefore, the research recommends the necessity of directing the Department of Educational Curriculum Development at the Ministry of Education to work on developing school programs, especially preventive programs, to face the problems posed by the spread of various Internet applications and technologies in general and social networking applications in particular, including cyberbullying.