The relationship between cyberbullying victimization and cyberbullying perpetration: The role of social responsibility
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Previous studies have found some influencing factors of cyberbullying. However, little is known about how cyberbullying victimization and social responsibility influence college students' cyberbullying perpetration or about the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying these relationships. Social responsibility involves not only individuals' deep cognition and special emotional identification of social responsibility but also their firm attitude and responsible actions. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between college students' cyberbullying victimization and cyberbullying perpetration and whether this relationship is moderated by social responsibility. The study sample consisted of 1,016 Chinese college students (425 males) ranging in age from 19 to 25 (mean age 22). All participants completed questionnaires on cyberbullying victimization, cyberbullying perpetration and social responsibility. The results indicated that cyberbullying victimization is positively related to cyberbullying perpetration and that this relationship is mediated by social responsibility. This study highlights the harmful impact of cyberbullying victimization on college students, more notably, the underlying mechanisms between cyberbullying victimization and cyberbullying perpetration are explored, revealing that social responsibility can reduce the promoting effect of cyberbullying victimization on cyberbullying perpetration.
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Implementing strategies that promote a shared social responsibility could be more effective in reducing perpetration.
“Implementing strategies that instead promote a shared social responsibility could be more effective in reducing perpetration (123).”
From A thematic analysis of adolescents’ perceptions of cyberbullying and cyberaggression: definitional distinctions and educational gaps (2026) · cites this paper as [123]
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“Implementing strategies that instead promote a shared social responsibility could be more effective in reducing perpetration (123).”
- Authors
- Zhan, J., Yang, Y., & Lian, R.
- Affiliations
- Fujian Normal University (CN)
- Zhejiang Normal University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Lian, Rong
- ORCID
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2022-09-09
- Volume
- 13
- Pages
- 995937-995937
- ISSN
- 1664-0640 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9500317
- OpenAlex
- W4295193339
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 3.77
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- Frontiers in Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Ministry of Education (19YJC710100)
- Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (XJQ201931)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- cyber victimization, cyberbullying perpetration, social responsibility, university students, mediation, moderation, Chinese university students
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