Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 469-476.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.04.10

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Relationships among Family Function, Interpersonal Adaptation and Cyberbullying of Adolescents: A Moderated Mediation Effect

WANG Bochen, JIN Cancan, ZHAO Baobao   

  1. Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083
  • Published:2020-07-21

Abstract: This study aims to examine the relationships among family function, interpersonal adaptation and cyberbullying of adolescents and the moderating effect of gender. The General Family Function Questionnaire, the Adolescent Interpersonal Adaptation scale and the Cyberbullying Questionnaire were administered to 1,921 adolescents from junior and high middle schools in Beijing and Kunming in China. The results showed that: (1) Adolescents’ family function, interpersonal adaptation and cyberbullying were significantly related to each other; (2) After controlling for family socioeconomic status (SES), interpersonal adaptation completely mediated the relationship between family function and adolescents' cyberbullying behavior; (3) Gender moderated the relationship between interpersonal adaptation and cyberbullying of adolescents. Specifically, compared with boys, girls with good interpersonal adaptation would participate in less cyberbullying. The results suggest that favorable famidy function can reduce adolescents' cyber budlying by affecting interpersonal adaptation. In addition, there are gender differences in this process. For girds, it is more targeted to improve social interpersonal adaptability.

Key words: adolescents, family function, interpersonal adaptation, cyberbullying

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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