Attitude and Awareness Towards Cyber Crime Among Perceptive Teachers

Abstract

Undoubtedly, evolution of technology makes each one of us advanced in every sphere of life. But these technologies, specially internet increases cybercrime. This paper highlights serious concerns among prospective teacher's attitude and awareness towards cyber Crime. The objectives of the study is to investigate the attitude and awareness of prospective teachers and to find significant difference in their attitude and awareness in relation to gender and time spent on social media. The study was conducted on 186 prospective teachers from the city of Patna. The Self constructed and validated Cyber Crime Attitude Scale and Cyber Crime Awareness Scale have been used for the study. The results indicate that only 15.59% of prospective teachers have positive attitude and 18.82% have high awareness. Most of the prospective teachers have neutral and average level of awareness. The result declared that there is a significant difference in the awareness of prospective teachers towards cybercrime and the time spent on social media.