Psychological Development and Education ›› 2024, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (3): 346-356.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2024.03.05

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The Relationship between Relative Deprivation and Cyberbullying in College Students:The Mediating Effect of Moral Disengagement and Moderating Effect of Moral Identity

HU Zhiqin1, XIONG Meng1,2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, School of Education and Sport Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023;
    2. Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH89JZ, UK
  • Published:2024-05-15

Abstract: In order to give an interpretation of the relationship and complex mechanisms between relative deprivation and cyberbullying, the present study formulated a moderated mediation model to test the mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating role of moral identity in the relations between relative deprivation and cyberbullying. A total of 575 college students completed questionnaires measuring relative deprivation, moral disengagement, moral identity and cyberbullying. The results showed that: (1) After controlling for age, gender, and subjective class identity, relative deprivation was positively associated with cyberbullying among college students; (2) The positive impact of relative deprivation on cyberbullying was mediated by moral disengagement; (3) The mediating effect of moral disengagement was moderated by moral identity in the second half path, that is, the moral disengagement of college students with low moral identity has a greater negative impact on cyberbullying than college students with high moral identity. The research results contribute to revealing the formation mechanism of college students’ cyberbullying, which has significant implications for cyberbullying intervention.

Key words: relative deprivation, moral disengagement, moral identity, cyberbullying, college students

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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