Journal
JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
Volume 37, Issue 23-24, Pages NP21646-NP21671Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/08862605211062988
Keywords
power imbalance; fun-seeking tendency; attitude toward cyberbullying; cyberbullying perpetration
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The study found that proficiency in technology use is directly and indirectly associated with cyberbullying, while social status among peers affects cyberbullying through fun-seeking tendency and attitudes towards cyberbullying. Physical power does not have a direct association with cyberbullying.
The imbalance of power affords individuals to bully others. However, limited studies have explored the specific aspects of power imbalance in predicting cyberbullying. Furthermore, a fun-seeking tendency as a motive for cyberbullying and attitudes toward cyberbullying as cognitive stimuli have rarely been studied in relation to mediating the associations between power imbalance and cyberbullying in an integrated framework. This study aims to narrow these research gaps. Multistage cluster random sampling was employed to recruit a total of 1103 adolescents (52.5% females) ranging in age from 12 to 18 years. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that proficiency in technology use is not only directly and positively associated with cyberbullying but also indirectly associated with cyberbullying via fun-seeking tendency. Although social status among peers had no direct effect on cyberbullying, the indirect effects of social status among peers on cyberbullying via the fun-seeking tendency and attitude toward cyberbullying were significant. Notably, physical power was neither directly associated with cyberbullying nor through the fun-seeking tendency or attitude toward cyberbullying in associating with cyberbullying. Implications of these findings for developing effective interventions are discussed.
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