Abstract
Cyberbullying is a form of bullying that occurs through technological means, such as social networking, instantmessaging and through mails. It can be constant, and at other times may occur in isolated incidents, but despite thetimeline of progression, some scholars argue that the effects are almost always catastrophic (Kowalski, Limber, &Agatston, 2012). With the emergence of internet and sophisticated cyber technologies, real words bullies have beenapplied to cyberspaces by those who tend to be aggressive without being aware of the potential harm they cause toanother person. This has become an intriguing area for academics and practitioners. The present study aims atexplaining the attitude towards cyberbullying and cyber victimization among the university students in Sri Lank interms of their personality factors. A short form of Eysenck personality Questionnaire, Rank scale for cyberbullyingindexes were given for 113 university students. The frequency statistics and person correlation of coefficients werecarried out in analyzing data. The most important findings of the study is that, the attitude towards cyberbullying andcyber victimization was related to psychoticism and extraversion dimensions of personality. Regarding the cybervictimization levels, it was found that most of the participants were subjected to cyber victimization at least in oneoccasion in their life. Results indicate that Female participants were more likely to be subjected to cybervictimization than the males. Further, it was found that anonymous calls, creating fake profiles or web pages are themost popular methods used by university students for cyberbullying.