Longitudinal cross-lagged analyses between cyberbullying perpetration, mindfulness and depression among Chinese high school students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the longitudinal relationships between cyberbullying perpetration, mindfulness, and depression among Chinese adolescents. The participants in our study included 1390 high school students who were randomly selected from several secondary schools in east China. Participants completed the Chinese version of Revised Cyber Bullying Inventory-Cyberbullying Subscale, the Chinese version of the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale and the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children at two time points (6-month interval). The results found that cyberbullying, mindfulness and depression would predict each other over time. Contributions to theory, limitations in our research and recommendations for future intervention are discussed in this article.

Cyberaggression in Adolescents of Bolivia: Connection with Psychopathological Symptoms, Adaptive and Predictor Variables

“…On the other hand, the findings of this study also confirm other studies that have found connections between cyberaggression and psychopathology. The results of this study confirm the research that has found that cyberaggressors have more symptoms of depression and anxiety [8,9,15], stress [10,14,15], feelings of loneliness [11,12,15], psychosomatic problems, and psychopathological symptoms in general [13]. Cyberaggressors have many psychopathological symptoms of various kinds, and, although causal relationships cannot be assumed because this is a cross-sectional study, this suggests that cyberaggression is related to a high level of psychological distress.…”

“…Concerning the connections between cyberaggression and psychopathology, the studies show that cyberaggressors suffer from depression and anxiety [8,9], stress [10], feelings of emotional loneliness [11,12], psychosomatic problems, and psychopathological symptoms [13]. The study of Garaigordobil and Machimbarrena [14] found that those who had high scores in cyberaggression also had high levels of stress, emotional and behavioral problems, and had consulted a psychologist for various symptoms (depression, anxiety etc.)…”

Cyberbullying victimization and problematic Internet use among Chinese adolescents: Longitudinal mediation through mindfulness and depression

“…The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) is a 20-item self-report depression measure with a 4-point response option (0 = not at all, 1 = a little, 2 = some, 3 = a lot). The CES-DC was translated into Chinese in the early 1990s and was validated with various Chinese populations (Wang, 1993; Yuan and Liu, 2019). Examples of the items included “I have poor sleep,” “I feel scared,” and “I don’t think I can concentrate on work.” Higher scores indicated greater severity of depression.…”

“…We first generated two hypotheses: (a) cyberbullying victimization at baseline would have direct positive association with PIU across time and (b) mindfulness and depressive symptoms would mediate the relationship between cyberbullying victimization and PIU. In addition, numerous researches have suggested there is a negative relation of mindfulness and depressive symptoms (An et al, 2019; Cheung and Ng, 2019; Jury and Jose, 2019; Mayer et al, 2019; Yuan and Liu, 2019). Thus, we generated the third hypothesis: (c) mindfulness would be inversely related to depressive symptoms in the mediation model.…”

Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationship between conscientiousness and mental health-related issues in adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Specifically, DM has been found to negatively predict anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. Moreover, such associations have also been found to hold in adolescents ( Liu et al, 2020 ; Yuan & Liu, 2019 ). These two facts- that conscientiousness is associated with DM, and that DM is associated with mental health- would seem to imply that DM could play a mediating role between conscientiousness and mental health-related issues.…”