Effects of filial piety belief on cyberbullying perpetration of Chinese university students

Abstract

Cyberbullying has become a worldwide phenomenon. Although the topic has drawn decent academic attention and many studies have been conducted on Chinese samples, variable interests in these studies have not captured the thinking and behavioral characteristics of Chinese people. Based on the dual filial piety model and self-determination theory, this study examined the effect of filial piety belief on cyberbullying perpetration and tested the mediation of relatedness need satisfaction. A total of 856 university students completed the questionnaires, including dual filial piety scale, relatedness need satisfaction scale and cyberbullying perpetration scale. The regression results found that reciprocal filial piety negatively predicted and authoritarian filial piety positively predicted cyberbullying perpetration. The SEM results showed that reciprocal filial piety and authoritarian filial piety impacted cyberbullying perpetration through the mediating effect of relatedness need satisfaction. Reciprocal filial piety was positively while authoritarian filial piety negatively correlated with relatedness need satisfaction and relatedness need satisfaction was negatively correlated with cyberbullying perpetration. The results provide a new position to understand the effect of family factors on cyberbullying perpetration by placing the topic within traditional Chinese family value.

The relationship between parental neglect and cyberbullying perpetration among Chinese adolescent: The sequential role of cyberbullying victimization and internet gaming disorder

“…A possible explanation of developmental traumatology for this finding is the description that parental neglect as a traumatic event affects the normal development of the individual's brain structure and function and then leads to the failure of self-regulating behaviors and acting out behaviors, such as cyberbullying perpetration ( 121 ). Furthermore, since our result only reflects the influence of the parenting role in the family system on adolescent cyberbullying, it is worth noting the contribution of child-related family factors, especially filial piety ( 42 , 122 ), to the development of cyberbullying in Asian culture. As a result, this finding not only suggests that families and schools should try their best to provide a healthy growth environment for adolescents to reduce their adverse experiences, but also pay more attention to monitoring and investigating the status of cyberbullying regularly.…”