Yazıcı-Kabadayı Sema, Mercan Oğuz, Öztemel Kemal
Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Türkiye.
Ministry of Education, Ankara, Türkiye.
BMC Public Health. 2025 Apr 22;25(1):1480. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-22745-w.
Participation in cyberbullying roles is associated with distinct psychosocial profiles and may contribute to adverse mental health outcomes. Despite its importance, research has yet to fully explore the latent profiles associated with cyberbullying roles and their interplay with psychosocial factors among adolescents. This study explores the roles of cyberbullies, cyber victims, and cyber bystanders among adolescents, using latent profile analysis (LPA) to uncover the connections between these roles and psychosocial variables, including loneliness, resilience, and self-regulation. The study involved 394 adolescents, including 246 women and 148 men, with an average age of 15.8 years (SD = 1.04). The LPA revealed three profiles: low-risk, moderate-risk, and high-risk groups. The low-risk group (%64.1), characterized by minimal involvement in cyberbullying roles, had the highest levels of resilience and self-regulation and the lowest levels of loneliness. In contrast, those in the moderate-risk group (%27.8) showed moderate involvement in all cyberbullying roles, the highest levels of loneliness, and the lowest levels of resilience and self-regulation. The high-risk group (%8.2) demonstrated significant engagement across all cyberbullying roles and moderate levels of loneliness, resilience, and self-regulation. These findings underscore the protective role of resilience and self-regulation against cyberbullying, with loneliness as a potential risk factor, particularly for the moderate-risk group. In addition to highlighting the need for interventions that enhance resilience and self-regulation to prevent cyberbullying, the present study suggests that further research into the role of loneliness in cyberbullying profiles could provide valuable insights, inspiring future studies and furthering our understanding of this multifaceted issue.
参与网络欺凌角色与不同的心理社会特征相关，可能导致不良的心理健康结果。尽管其重要性，但研究尚未充分探索与网络欺凌角色相关的潜在特征及其在青少年中与心理社会因素的相互作用。本研究使用潜在类别分析（LPA）来揭示这些角色与心理社会变量（包括孤独感、复原力和自我调节）之间的联系，探讨青少年中的网络欺凌者、网络受害者和网络旁观者的角色。该研究涉及394名青少年，包括246名女性和148名男性，平均年龄为15.8岁（标准差=1.04）。LPA揭示了三种特征：低风险、中度风险和高风险组。低风险组（64.1%）参与网络欺凌角色最少，具有最高水平的复原力和自我调节能力以及最低水平的孤独感。相比之下，中度风险组（27.8%）在所有网络欺凌角色中表现出中等程度的参与，孤独感最高，复原力和自我调节能力最低。高风险组（8.2%）在所有网络欺凌角色中表现出显著参与，孤独感、复原力和自我调节能力处于中等水平。这些发现强调了复原力和自我调节对网络欺凌的保护作用，孤独感是一个潜在风险因素，尤其是对中度风险组而言。除了强调需要采取干预措施来增强复原力和自我调节能力以预防网络欺凌外，本研究还表明，进一步研究孤独感在网络欺凌特征中的作用可能会提供有价值的见解，激发未来的研究并加深我们对这个多方面问题的理解。
