Faculty of Social Sciences, Health and Welfare. Psychology Program, Luis Amigó Catholic University, Medellin, Colombia.
Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, Tecnológico de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
Psychiatry Res. 2024 Jul;337:115968. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.115968. Epub 2024 May 17.
This paper analyzed the role of depression as a mediator in the association between bullying, cyberbullying, and suicide risk in adolescent females. A total of 751 Colombian adolescent females (M= 13.71, SD=1.897), who were administered the Plutchik Suicide Risk Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory, the European Bullying Intervention Project Questionnaire and Cyberbullying. Bullying victimization and aggression and cyberbullying victimization were found to contribute statistically significant effects that explaining 22 % of the variance in depression. The variables of victimization in bullying and cyberbullying and depression explained 64 % of the variance in suicidal risk, and depression mediated the association between victim and aggressor roles in bullying and cyberbullying in predicting suicidal risk, whose total direct and indirect effects are statistically significant. The findings support the role of depression as a mediating variable between bullying and cyberbullying and suicidal risk in female adolescents and highlight the importance of focusing prevention and intervention efforts on risk factors for depression and suicidal behavior in cases of bullying and cyberbullying.
本文分析了抑郁在欺凌、网络欺凌和自杀风险之间的关联中作为中介的作用，该关联存在于青春期女性中。共有 751 名哥伦比亚青春期女性（M=13.71，SD=1.897）参与了这项研究，她们接受了 Plutchik 自杀风险量表、贝克抑郁量表、欧洲欺凌干预项目问卷和网络欺凌问卷的评估。欺凌受害和攻击以及网络欺凌受害被发现具有统计学上显著的影响，解释了抑郁变异的 22%。欺凌和网络欺凌中的受害变量以及抑郁解释了自杀风险变异的 64%，抑郁在预测自杀风险方面中介了欺凌和网络欺凌中受害者和攻击者角色之间的关联，其总直接和间接效应具有统计学意义。这些发现支持了抑郁在青春期女性中作为欺凌和网络欺凌与自杀风险之间的中介变量的作用，并强调了在欺凌和网络欺凌情况下，关注抑郁和自杀行为风险因素的预防和干预工作的重要性。
