[
    {
        "id": "osp-9361",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Social Workers’ Perceptions of the Prevalence of Cyberbullying Among Post-Primary Education Students in the Sultanate of Oman",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Al Saidi",
                "given": "Fawziya"
            },
            {
                "family": "Al-Maamri",
                "given": "Saif Bin Naser"
            },
            {
                "family": "Al Badawi",
                "given": "Rahma"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/ar/articles/social-workers-perceptions-of-the-prevalence-of-cyberbullying-among-post-primary-education-students-in-the-sultanate-of-oman",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2026
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Journal of Arts and Social Sciences",
        "volume": "17",
        "issue": "1",
        "page": "148-162",
        "DOI": "10.53542/2522-2279.1459",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2312-1270",
        "abstract": "The current study addressed one of the most important problems facing human societies, which is the phenomenon of cyberbullying, applied to the Sultanate of Oman. The study followed a mixed approach, represented by the documentary and qualitative approaches - the grounded theory method. The study community represented documents related to cyberbullying in terms of its nature, forms, parties, effects, and strategies to confront it. A sample of experts in basic education schools, numbering 8 experts, and semi-standardized interview questions were used as a tool to monitor their perceptions, while verifying the necessary values of objectivity and reliability. The results of the study revealed the prevalence of cyberbullying among post-primary education students, and that the forms of cyberbullying practiced by students are centered around five forms: harassment, exclusion, defamation, circulating rumors, and publishing embarrassing photos or videos. As for the factors that lead to the spread of cyberbullying among students, the participants linked it to four factors: age, educational level, parental upbringing, the breadth of friend networks, and economic and social conditions. Regarding strategies to confront cyberbullying, the participants’ responses centered around three strategies for participation: the formal confrontation strategy, the social confrontation response, and the cognitive confrontation strategy."
    }
]