Exploring the Link Between Cyber Victimization and Depression.

IF 1.1 4区医学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Violence and Victims Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI:10.1891/vv-2022-0223

Chelsea Olson,Amy Bellmore

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Abstract

Cyber victimization is strongly and positively associated with depressive symptoms in adolescence. Identifying mechanisms of this association is imperative to benefit adolescents' mental health. Applying the General Aggression Model in a theoretically novel way, this study examined a complex mediational pathway between cyber victimization and depressive symptoms. Two hundred seventy-seven adolescent participants (M age = 15.84; 65.7% females) reported their own cyber victimization experiences, depressive symptoms, and cognitive, emotional, and behavioral attributions in response to a hypothetical cyber victimization scenario. Path analysis within structural equation modeling was used to test a model where cyber victimization predicted depressive symptoms through characterological self-blame cognitions, sadness emotions, and passive avoidance behaviors. Characterological self-blame was found to partially mediate the positive and significant association between cyber victimization and depressive symptoms. Sadness emotions and passive avoidance behaviors did not emerge as significant mediators. The findings implicate the importance of cognitions in explaining the association between cyber victimization and depression and suggest incorporating cognitive re-framing education into anti-cyberbullying prevention programs.

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探索网络受害与抑郁症之间的联系。

网络受害与青少年的抑郁症状有着密切的正相关关系。要使青少年的心理健康受益，找出这种关联的机制势在必行。本研究以一种理论上新颖的方式应用了一般攻击模型，研究了网络受害与抑郁症状之间复杂的中介途径。277 名青少年参与者（平均年龄为 15.84 岁，女性占 65.7%）报告了自己的网络受害经历、抑郁症状，以及对假设网络受害情景的认知、情感和行为归因。结构方程模型中的路径分析用于检验网络受害通过性格自责认知、悲伤情绪和被动回避行为预测抑郁症状的模型。结果发现，性格自责在一定程度上介导了网络受害与抑郁症状之间的正向显著联系。悲伤情绪和被动回避行为没有成为重要的中介因素。研究结果表明，认知在解释网络受害与抑郁症之间的关联方面具有重要作用，并建议将认知重构教育纳入反网络欺凌预防计划中。

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Violence and Victims CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： We all face the difficult problem of understanding and treating the perpetrators and victims of violence behavior. Violence and Victims is the evidence-based resource that informs clinical decisions, legal actions, and public policy. Now celebrating its 25th year, Violence and Victims is a peer-reviewed journal of theory, research, policy, and clinical practice in the area of interpersonal violence and victimization. It seeks to facilitate the exchange of information on this subject across such professional disciplines as psychology, sociology, criminology, law, medicine, nursing, psychiatry, and social work.