RT Journal Article
T1 Cyberbullying and Psychological Well-being in Young Adolescence: The Potential Protective Mediation Effects of Social Support from Family, Friends, and Teachers
A1 Hellfeldt, Karin
A1 López-Romero, Laura
A1 Andershed, Henrik
K1 Cyberbullying
K1 Adolescents
K1 Cyber-victim
K1 Cyberbully-victim
K1 Mental health
K1 Psychological well-being
K1 Social support
K1 Depression
K1 Anxiety
K1 Subjective well-being
AB 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
PB MDPI
SN 1661-7827
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21958
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21958
LA eng
NO Hellfeldt, K.; López-Romero, L.; Andershed, H. Cyberbullying and Psychological Well-being in Young Adolescence: The Potential Protective Mediation Effects of Social Support from Family, Friends, and Teachers. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 45
NO Karin Hellfeldts’ contribution to this study was partially funded by Groschinsky’s Memory Foundation. Laura López-Romero’contribution to this study was partially funded by Programa de Axudas á Etapa Posdoutoral da Xunta de Galicia (2017)
DS Minerva
RD 29 abr 2026