Miao Ruikai, Li Zhuoyang
Mental Health Education and Guidance Center, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Front Psychol. 2024 Feb 26;15:1302200. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1302200. eCollection 2024.
Cyberbullying among college students has been receiving increased research attention. Previous studies have focused primarily on the impact of a single risk factor on cyberbullying among college students. However, individual behavior is influenced by multiple ecosystems simultaneously, including family, school, and peers. To explore the effects of a single risk factor alone is not in line with the reality of everyday life, and the effect of the single risk factor can often be overestimated. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the impact of multiple risk factors, namely cumulative ecological risk, on cyberbullying, while analyzing the mediating roles of belief in a just world and moral disengagement.
A survey was conducted among 805 college students from two universities in Hebei Province, China, using the cumulative ecological risk questionnaire, the cyberbullying scale, the belief in a just world scale, and the moral disengagement scale.
The results showed that: (a) Cumulative ecological risk was positively correlated with moral disengagement and cyberbullying, and negatively correlated with belief in a just world. Belief in a just world was negatively correlated with moral disengagement and cyberbullying. Moral disengagement was positively correlated with cyberbullying; (b) Belief in a just world partially mediated the relationship between cumulative ecological risk and cyberbullying; (c) Moral disengagement partially mediated the relationship between cumulative ecological risk and cyberbullying; (d) Belief in a just world and moral disengagement played a chain mediating role between cumulative ecological risk and college students' cyberbullying.
This study provides valuable insight for the reduction of cyberbullying behavior among college students, and offers suggestions on how to create a more favorable online environment.
大学生中的网络欺凌现象日益受到研究关注。以往研究主要聚焦于单一风险因素对大学生网络欺凌的影响。然而，个体行为同时受到多个生态系统的影响，包括家庭、学校和同伴。仅探究单一风险因素的影响不符合日常生活实际，且单一风险因素的影响往往会被高估。因此，本研究旨在探讨多种风险因素，即累积生态风险，对网络欺凌的影响，同时分析公正世界信念和道德推脱的中介作用。
对来自中国河北省两所大学的805名大学生进行了调查，使用了累积生态风险问卷、网络欺凌量表、公正世界信念量表和道德推脱量表。
结果显示：（a）累积生态风险与道德推脱和网络欺凌呈正相关，与公正世界信念呈负相关。公正世界信念与道德推脱和网络欺凌呈负相关。道德推脱与网络欺凌呈正相关；（b）公正世界信念部分中介了累积生态风险与网络欺凌之间的关系；（c）道德推脱部分中介了累积生态风险与网络欺凌之间的关系；（d）公正世界信念和道德推脱在累积生态风险与大学生网络欺凌之间起链式中介作用。
本研究为减少大学生网络欺凌行为提供了有价值的见解，并就如何营造更有利的网络环境提出了建议。
