Contribution Threat Perception, School Climate and Prejudice as Mediator to Student’s Cyber Aggression

Abstract

This study aims to test students’ cyber aggression models based on previous studies, especially those related to high school students’ Cyber Aggression behavior. Following the stages of adolescent development, this research uses the socio-ecological theoretical perspective of the cyber context. This study determines several predictive variables as risk factors and protective factors that have the most potential to influence student cyber aggression, such as perceived threats, school climate, and prejudice. The model tested in this study is the role of the perceived threat and school climate on students’ Cyber Aggression behavior mediated by prejudice. This study uses a quantitative approach with structural equation modeling analysis, namely the structural equation model (SEM). The sampling technique used in this study is purposive sampling. The subjects of this study are high school students who actively use social media every day, with 1118 students as respondents from several cities in Indonesia. The result shows that the theoretical model of students’ Cyber Aggression behavior as per the empirical conditions in the field has met the goodness of fit model standard, meaning that the perception of threats and the school climate-mediated by prejudice were simultaneously proven to play a role as predictors of student Cyber Aggression