Factors influencing cyberbullying among youth in Hulu Langat Selangor / Nur Dini Hairodin and Nurul Aida Mohd Nor

Cyberbullying is now a big issue as everyone nowadays uses the internet almost every day and they have the probability to be involved in this issue. This technology is increasing day by day and this is having an impact on the increasing number of internet users in the world. According to Data Reportal (2021), there are 4.76 billion internet users in the world today which have increased from last year which is 4.54 billion internet users. It means that 60% of the population in the world use the internet in their lifestyle because the facilities and the technologies give more benefit to them. The goal of this study is to determine the factors that influence cyberbullying among youths in Hulu Langat, Selangor. This research used a convenience sampling method as the researcher can recruit the participants which are 384 youths in Hulu Langat, Selangor. This research is intended to establish the important relationship between variables that influence cyberbullying among youth which are lack of religious value, lack of parent monitoring, frequency of internet use, aggressive behaviour. The results of this study indicate that these four variables have a significant relationship in influencing cyberbullying among youths. Therefore, this study suggested that the roles of government, family and media have to be played efficiently because the information on cyberbullying are not spread efficiently and may give awareness to the society on how to solve this issue nowadays.