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Assessment of cyber abuse during the years 2020 and 2021 among a sample of Egyptian females

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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• Violence, Assault and Injury, Domestic Violence

Abstract

Violence against women is a global issue, but it is particularly prevalent in the Middle East. According to WHO estimates, approximately 35% of women around the world have been exposed to physical and/or sexually intimate relationship violence or non-partner sexual violence at some point in their lives. Because nearly one in every two people uses the internet and one billion homes have an internet connection, cyber violence is a growing global epidemic with serious public health implications, it is linked not only to negative psychological, social, and reproductive health outcomes for victims but also to offline physical and sexual assault. Cyber harassment, cyberstalking, defamation, non-consensual pornography, e-mail spoofing, cyber hacking, and virtual rape are all examples of cyber violence against women. Data on the scope of cyber violence and its prevalence across various people and cultures is limited, but studies suggest that women, girls, and sexual minorities are more likely to be victims of cyber abuse. Objectives: Our research aimed to assess the problem of cyber violence against women in Egypt, including its prevalence, different forms, and impact on victims' lives to identify and develop preventive strategies. Methodology: The research was conducted utilizing an online poll that was distributed over two of Egypt's most popular social media platforms, Facebook and WhatsApp, to assess if the participants were subjected to cyber abuse during two years, 2020 and 2021. To get a high response rate, the researchers chose groups with a large number of female members. The researchers collected responses, by a survey published at link to the study page for three months, in the period from November 1, 2021, till January 31, 2022. Results: Our study included 324 adult female participants, about 52 % of them were between 31 and 40 years old. About 85 percent of our participants said they had been subjected to cyber violence, 64 percent said they had been subjected to cyber harassment three times or more and 52.7 percent said they were harassed via social media. Conclusions, the Egyptian population has seen a high rate of cyber violence against women in the past two years.

DOI

10.21608/ejfsat.2022.126994.1253

Keywords

cyber abuse, cyber harassment, Females, Egypt, social media

Authors

First Name

Rabab

Last Name

Eltokhy

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Email

drrabababdulmoez@gmail.com

City

cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-0666-5949

First Name

Amal

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Email

amalsalamabadawy@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

Alsaeed

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Department of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

Email

shimo999shimo@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

22

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

33202

Issue Date

2022-06-01

Receive Date

2022-03-17

Publish Date

2022-06-01

Page Start

47

Page End

56

Print ISSN

1687-0875

Online ISSN

2535-1915

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https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/article_241593.html

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https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=241593

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Original Article

Type Code

429

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Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicology

Publication Link

https://ejfsat.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Assessment of cyber abuse during the years 2020 and 2021 among a sample of Egyptian females

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Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023