Cyber bullying and its impact on youth

A study on the students of Lovely Professional University

Abstract

In this current scenario the Internet has been the most reliable source for every age group. But since humans can take any form to achieve their target which sometimes can be negative such as ruining the lives and reputation of others for revenge, jealousy, and hatred, they have also started in Internet which is Cyberbullying and due to Covid-19, the compulsory quarantine and isolation has made half of the citizens unproductive. Thus, spending a day without going outside has been a difficult task therefore the only thing they can do is using the Internet. Speaking of education, the massive transformation from offline to online has changed the scene of learning. Hence, this paper tries to find out the impact of cyber bullying on the students at Lovely Professional University andmainly focus on the psychological impacts the victim faces in nine dimensions/symptoms which are Somatization, Obsessive Compulsion, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Depression, Anxiety, Hostility, Phobic anxiety, Paranoid and Psychoticism and it was conducted on the students studying at Lovely Professional University, Punjab. Different attributes like legal laws werealso included while conducting the survey.