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Cyberbullying and Psychological Well-being in Young Adolescence: The Potential Protective Mediation Effects of Social Support from Family, Friends, and Teachers
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In the current study, we tested the relations between cyberbullying roles and several psychological well-being outcomes, as well as the potential mediation effect of perceived social support from family, friends, and teachers in school. This was investigated in a cross-sectional sample of 1707 young adolescents (47.5% girls, aged 10-13 years, self-reporting via a web questionnaire) attending community and private schools in a mid-sized municipality in Sweden. We concluded from our results that the Cyberbully-victim group has the highest levels of depressive symptoms, and the lowest of subjective well-being and family support. We also observed higher levels of anxiety symptoms in both the Cyber-victims and the Cyberbully-victims. Moreover, we conclude that some types of social support seem protective in the way that it mediates the relationship between cyberbullying and psychological well-being. More specifically, perceived social support from family and from teachers reduce the probability of depressive and anxiety symptoms, and higher levels of social support from the family increase the probability of higher levels of subjective well-being among youths being a victim of cyberbullying (i.e., cyber-victim) and being both a perpetrator and a victim of cyber bullying (i.e., cyberbully-victim). Potential implications for prevention strategies are discussed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hellfeldt, K., López-Romero, L., & Andershed, H.
- Affiliations
- Örebro University (SE)
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Corresponding author
- Hellfeldt, Karin
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2019-12-19
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 45
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6981789
- OpenAlex
- W2995484715
- Cited by
- 278
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 29 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 59 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 10
- FWCI
- 24.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Hispana (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Repositorio institucional da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (University of Santiago de Compostela) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Karlstads universitet
- Xunta de Galicia
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Keywords
- cyberbullying, psychological well-being, adolescents, social support, family support, teacher support, peer support, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, subjective well-being, mediation, cyberbullying prevention
- MeSH terms
- Educational Personnel, Cyberbullying, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Anxiety, Child, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depression, Female, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Schools, Social Support, Sweden, Crime Victims, Friends
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