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The scale allows the assessment of cyberbullying victimisation.
The Cyber-victimisation Scale_CYBVICS is an instrument comprised of 18 items to assess cyberbullying victimisation. It consists of two sub-scales to measure direct and indirect cyber-victimisation.
The direct cyber-victimisation sub-scale consists of eight items that measure behaviours and attacks that are directly aimed at a person. They can be verbal (e.g., I have been sent messages mocking me to annoy me) or social (e.g., I have been blocked and kicked out of groups to leave me with no friends).
The indirect cyber-victimisation scale consists of 10 items that measure indirect behaviours and attacks through content manipulation (e.g., They have made or manipulated videos or pictures of me), identity theft (e.g., They have impersonated me to say or do bad things online or on social networks) or hacking attacks (e.g., They have changed my password for social networks so that I cannot log in to any of my accounts).
The factor analysis demonstrates the double factorial structure of the scale, which explains 53,08% of the variance. The direct cyber-victimisation factor explains 43,85% of the variance and the indirect cyber-victimisation factor explains 9,24%.
Direct cyber-victimisation (8 items): 1, 2, 4, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18
Indirect cyber-victimisation (10 items): 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17
Psychometric properties
Reliability: The coefficient alpha for the total scale is 0,88, the reliability for the direct cyber-victimisation sub-scale is 0,92, and for the indirect cyber-victimisation sub-scale 0,89. (Buelga et al., 2019).
Validity: The convergent validity results of the instrument find congruent relationships with variables examined in previous literature. Cyber-victimisation positively correlates with school victimisation, depressive symptomatology and offensive family communication. Cyber-victimisation negatively correlates with family self-esteem, open communication with the father and mother.
The BIPSIA Research Group makes this instrument available to the rest of the scientific community for free use in research on this subject.
The scale has been successfully used in several research studies published in scientific journals.
