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The Effect of Cyber-bullying/Cyber-victimization on Sleep Quality in Early Adolescence: A Serial Mediation Model of Social Anxiety and Depression Mood

JIANG Suo1, DING Jinqi2, LIU Yan3, LU Yuanyuan1, LI Xiaoqing4, CHEN Jing5   

  1. 1. School of Psychiatry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035;
    2. School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079;
    3. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    4. School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518061;
    5. Planning and Development Division (Higher Education Research Institute), Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035
  • Published:2023-01-10

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Abstract: Based on the cognitive model of insomnia, the study used structural equation models to explore the mechanism of social anxiety and depression mood in the relationship between cyber-bullying/cyber-victimization and sleep quality, and verified the gender differences in the mediation model. The participants were 582 students from nine primary and middle schools in Zhejiang Province. They conducted a follow-up survey for three times, and the interval of each survey was half a year. They completed a set of self-report measures on cyber-bullying/cyber-victimization, social anxiety, depression mood and sleep quality. The results showed that:(1) Social anxiety and depression mood played a serial mediating role in the relationship between cyber-bullying/cyber-victimization and sleep quality; (2) There are gender differences in the serial mediating effect of cyber-bullying/cyber-victimization on sleep quality. Therefore, the effect of cyber-bullying/cyber-victimization on sleep quality had its own complex internal mechanism. It suggests that educators should pay attention to the teenagers' emotional problems caused by cyber-bullying/cyber-victimization, and only by solving the emotional distress fundamentally, can teenagers' sleep quality be effectively and ultimately improved.

Key words: cyber-bullying/cyber-victimization, social anxiety, depression mood, sleep quality, early adolescence

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