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New Educational Review, vol.25, no.3, pp.53-65, 2011 (SSCI)
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of cyber bullying on the distrust levels among final year university students by considering the intermediary effect of Internet addiction. The study group comprises preservice teachers who were senior year students at the Firat University Education Faculty in Elaziǧ city, Turkey, during the spring term of the 2009-2010 academic year. Cyber bullying of preservice teachers directly impacts on their distrust levels at the.24 level. However, when Internet addiction was included in the model as a mediating variable, the direct impact of cyber bullying on distrust decreased to (.14). Therefore, it is evident that when cyber bullying is mediated by Internet addiction, its impact on the distrust levels of pre-service teachers is more significant.