title: Cybersafety in education for the 21st century: A comparative study of Malaysia and Thailand
creator: Soon , Seng Thah
creator: Kaur, Kuldip
creator: Ling, Philip
subject: L Education (General)
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: Education for the 21st Century must recognise cybersafety issues faced by students in  schools. Cybersecurity threats are everywhere and students must be able to cope with  an environment where cyber threats and risks persist. What are these threats and risks  and how do students in Malaysia and Thailand handle them? This paper attempts to  compare and contrast cybersafety issues among school students in Malaysia and  Thailand. The sample for this survey comprised 1,896 students from Malaysia and  1,336 students from Thailand. The quantitative research approach was used to explore  and confirm relationship among variables. Four important factors influencing  cybersafety among students in Malaysia comprise i. availability of help through  significant others, parents and teachers (including counsellors), ii. accessing negative  sites, iii. tendency to hide things from parents, and iv. feeling of discomfort when  surfing negative sites. On the other hand, factors in Thailand include: i. ready  availability of help if bullied or proper avenues are available, ii. victim of  cyberbullying, iii. experiences of cyberbullying, and iv. experiences with accessing  negative websites. The findings showed high construct reliability and high construct  validity which was confirmed through Structural Equation Modeling. The study  showed that Malaysia and Thailand’s cybersafety issues differed significantly (p < .05)  in 6 constructs, i.e. i. existence of problematic situations or negative experiences, ii.  peer pressure, iii. parent-children gap, iv. sexting, v. cyber-bullying, and vi. dealing  with negative experience or mediation strategies. The study recommended the  following: i. parents in both Malaysia and Thailand should play a pivotal role in their  children’s well-being in cybersafety issues, ii. Malaysia and Thailand should develop  local-based strategies to suit local contexts in cybersafety issues, and iii. overcoming  new cyber risks in Malaysia and Thailand should follow best practices in other  countries which have successfully overcome them. (Abstract by authors)
date: 2019
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1161/1/library-document-1161.pdf
identifier:   Soon , Seng Thah and Kaur, Kuldip and Ling, Philip  (2019) Cybersafety in education for the 21st century: A comparative study of Malaysia and Thailand.  In: International Conference on Education (ICE 2019), 10-11 April 2019, Kuala Lumpur.     
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1161/