Abstract:
Since the Internet become a part of peoples life, cyberbullying become one of the largest problem for most people, especially for students. Unidentified accessing in online mass media always causes bullying whenever they are on the Internet which affects to their well-being as well as mental health. The aim of this descriptive study were to investigate the prevalence of cyberbullying, psychosocial well-being and mental health among first-year undergraduate students in Chulalongkorn university and to find the correlation between cyberbullying, well-being and mental health. The data were collected from 1,433 first-year undergraduate students and the questionnaires that were used in the study included: 1) personal information, 2) cyber-aggression victimization scale, 3) CU student psychological well-being test and, 4) the Thai mental health questionnaire (TMHQ : CU-modified short form). Then data are analyzed and presented by descriptive statistic were frequencies, percentages, mean, median, min, max, standard deviation, Chi-square test, and Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis. The results showed that most of students are cyberbullying victims (52.7%), moderate well-being (46.5%, mean = 35.55 and S.D. = 6.94), while mental health problem were not mostly found (55.8%). Multiple Logistic Regression Analysis showed that mental health problem was associated with cyberbullying (p<0.01), psychosocial well-being (p<0.01) female (p<0.01) faculty (p<0.05) other religions (p<0.05) insufficient cost of living (p<0.05), disliked subjects (p<0.05), and found friends with mental health problem (p<0.01). In conclustion; cyberbullying affects to low psychosocial well-being and affects to mental health problem.