Development and Validation of Schadenfreude in Bullying and Cyberbullying Scale (SBCS).

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psicothema Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI:10.70478/psicothema.2025.37.14

Antonio Cabrera-Vázquez, Daniel Falla, Rosario Ortega-Ruiz, Eva M Romera

{"title":"Development and Validation of Schadenfreude in Bullying and Cyberbullying Scale (SBCS).","authors":"Antonio Cabrera-Vázquez, Daniel Falla, Rosario Ortega-Ruiz, Eva M Romera","doi":"10.70478/psicothema.2025.37.14","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: Schadenfreude is a moral emotion consisting of enjoyment when seeing other people suffer, and whose activation has been related to transgressive behaviour in adulthood. Despite this, the study of this emotion in aggression phenomena among schoolchildren has received little scientific attention, possibly due to a lack of instruments. We aimed to design and provide evidence of the validity and reliability of a scale for measuring schadenfreude in situations of online and offline bullying.Methods: The sample consisted of 3,183 primary and secondary school pupils (48.4% girls; M age = 12.76; SD = 1.52).Results: The data confirmed that the two-dimensional model was the best fit (χ 2 S-B = 81.800; CFI = .984; SRMR = .036; RMSEA = .049). Scale scores were shown to be invariant with regard to gender and age, and evidence was provided of predictive validity, with a clear relationship found between schadenfreude, bullying and cyberbullying.Conclusions: These findings confirm the validity of the instrument scores, which may be useful for measuring this emotion in educational contexts and guiding psycho-educational interventions aimed at improving moral emotion regulation and preventing bullying and cyberbullying.","PeriodicalId":48179,"journal":{"name":"Psicothema","volume":"37 2","pages":"32-41"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psicothema","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.70478/psicothema.2025.37.14","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Background: Schadenfreude is a moral emotion consisting of enjoyment when seeing other people suffer, and whose activation has been related to transgressive behaviour in adulthood. Despite this, the study of this emotion in aggression phenomena among schoolchildren has received little scientific attention, possibly due to a lack of instruments. We aimed to design and provide evidence of the validity and reliability of a scale for measuring schadenfreude in situations of online and offline bullying.

Methods: The sample consisted of 3,183 primary and secondary school pupils (48.4% girls; M _age = 12.76; SD = 1.52).

Results: The data confirmed that the two-dimensional model was the best fit (χ ² S-B = 81.800; CFI = .984; SRMR = .036; RMSEA = .049). Scale scores were shown to be invariant with regard to gender and age, and evidence was provided of predictive validity, with a clear relationship found between schadenfreude, bullying and cyberbullying.

Conclusions: These findings confirm the validity of the instrument scores, which may be useful for measuring this emotion in educational contexts and guiding psycho-educational interventions aimed at improving moral emotion regulation and preventing bullying and cyberbullying.

查看原文本刊更多论文

幸灾乐祸霸凌与网络霸凌量表（SBCS）的编制与验证。

背景：幸灾乐祸（Schadenfreude）是一种看到别人受苦时的一种道德情绪，这种情绪的激活与成年后的违法行为有关。尽管如此，对小学生攻击现象中的这种情绪的研究却很少受到科学的关注，可能是由于缺乏工具。我们的目的是设计一个在线和离线欺凌情况下幸灾乐祸的量表，并提供效度和信度的证据。方法：调查对象为3183名中小学生，其中女生48.4%；M年龄= 12.76；Sd = 1.52)。结果：数据证实二维模型拟合最佳(χ 2 S-B = 81.800；Cfi = .984；SRMR = 0.036；Rmsea = .049)。量表得分在性别和年龄方面是不变的，并提供了预测效度的证据，发现幸灾乐祸、欺凌和网络欺凌之间存在明确的关系。结论：这些发现证实了工具得分的有效性，这可能有助于在教育情境中测量这种情绪，并指导旨在提高道德情绪调节和预防欺凌和网络欺凌的心理教育干预。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Psicothema PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

6.50

自引率

16.70%

发文量

审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： La revista Psicothema fue fundada en Asturias en 1989 y está editada conjuntamente por la Facultad y el Departamento de Psicología de la Universidad de Oviedo y el Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado de Asturias. Publica cuatro números al año. Se admiten trabajos tanto de investigación básica como aplicada, pertenecientes a cualquier ámbito de la Psicología, que previamente a su publicación son evaluados anónimamente por revisores externos. Psicothema está incluida en las bases de datos nacionales e internacionales más relevantes, entre las que cabe destacar Psychological Abstracts, Current Contents y MEDLINE/Index Medicus, entre otras. Además, figura en las listas de Factor de Impacto del Journal Citation Reports. Psicothema es una revista abierta a cualquier enfoque u orientación psicológica que venga avalada por la fuerza de los datos y los argumentos, y en la que encuentran acomodo todos los autores que sean capaces de convencer a los revisores de que sus manuscritos tienen la calidad para ser publicados. Psicothema es una revista de acceso abierto lo que significa que todo el contenido está a disposición de cualquier usuario o institución sin cargo alguno. Los usuarios pueden leer, descargar, copiar, distribuir, imprimir, buscar, o realizar enlaces a los textos completos de esta revista sin pedir permiso previo al editor o al autor, siempre y cuando la fuente original sea referenciada. Para acervos y repositorios, se prefiere que la cobertura se realice mediante enlaces a la propia web de Psicothema. Nos parece que una apuesta decidida por la calidad es el mejor modo de servir a nuestros lectores, cuyas sugerencias siempre serán bienvenidas.