Examining the longitudinal relationship between family conflict and bullying in Chinese children: The serial mediating roles of personal mastery and social anxiety

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2024.112978

Xiaowei Chu , Wenyu Ji , Qing Li

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Abstract

Family conflict has been identified as a significant predictor of bullying. However, there is a lack of research exploring the underlying mechanism of this association. The present study investigated the potential mediating roles of personal mastery and social anxiety in the relationship between family conflict and bullying perpetration and victimization. A total of 541 Chinese children (female: 53.77 %) aged 8 to 12 (M = 9.69, SD = 0.96) participated in this survey. The survey was conducted in two waves with a six-month interval. Participants completed self-report questionnaires on research variables. Results indicated that family conflict cross-sectionally predicted bullying perpetration and victimization. Furthermore, these cross-sectional relationships were serially mediated by personal mastery and social anxiety. The findings suggest that family conflict plays an important role in child bullying and that this relationship works through the chain mediation of personal mastery and social anxiety. Educators should pay special attention to children's personal mastery and social anxiety, as well as the adverse effects of family conflicts, to provide targeted interventions for child bullying.

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.