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    (UMT.Lahore, 2022) Asma Jahangir; Safa Ahmed
    Social media engagement and spiritual bypass depicts cyber violence. Spiritual Bypass is used by people who have ability to use spirituality and religious practices so that they can avoid their unresolved emotional issues. Everyone engages himself or herself in social media usage in today’s era so that they can stay connected with the world around them but unfortunately, some people use it for the purpose for abusing others online. The motive of carrying out this research was, investigating the relationship, between social media engagement, spiritual bypass and cyber violence. According to the first hypothesis, there is a chance of positive relationship between Social Media Engagement and Cyber Violence and the second hypothesis stated that there is a chance of negative relationship between Spiritual Bypass, Social Media Engagement and Cyber violence. A co-relational study analyzed a sample of 200 young adults (Men=76, Women=124). Between the ages of 17 – 22 years, (M = 16200 and SD = 20000) by using convenient sampling. There were 76 men and 124 women out of a sample size of 200 participants. The measures included Social Networking Usage Questionnaire, Spiritual Bypass Scale and Cyber Violence Scale. The spiritual bypass scale had two subscales, avoidance and lack of responsibility. Whereas, the cyber violence scale has five subscales such as shaming, information manipulation, technology abuse, information sharing and hate-speech. The results of this research exhibited, no relationship between Social Media Engagement, Spiritual Bypass and Cyber Violence. Finally, multiple hierarchical regression analysis illustrated a non-significant relationship between spiritual bypass, social media engagement and cyber violence. The T-Test results showed that there are gender differences in cyber violence. It says that females are more victims of cyber violence than males, and males are more perpetrators than females