The aim of this study was to examine the moderation effects of parenting attitude and peer attachment on the relationship between experience of cyberbullying through SNS and depression, suicidal ideation. For this purpose, the differences in experienc...
The aim of this study was to examine the moderation effects of parenting attitude and peer attachment on the relationship between experience of cyberbullying through SNS and depression, suicidal ideation. For this purpose, the differences in experience among adolescent students in terms of demographic characteristics, the relationship between the experience of cyberbullying and depression, suicidal ideation, and the relationship between the experience of cyberbullying and parenting attitude, peer attachment were examined. Finally, the moderation effects of parenting attitude and peer attachment on the relationship of cyberbullying and depression, suicidal ideation were examined, controlling the variables of gender and age.
The sample included 641 students from the primary schools in Gyeonggi-do and middle schools in Seoul. The scales of the victimization experience of cyberbullying, the attacking experience of cyberbullying, the stability of peer attachment(IPPA_R), the Korean version of Parental Bonding Instrument form of parent-children, children's depression Instrument, Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire-Reynolds, and the victim of peer bullying were used for measuring. The self-reporting questionnaires survey was performed/used to collect the data. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS version 18.0 and the followings were the findings.
First, the differences in the experience of cyberbullying in terms of demographic characteristics were examined. The results showed the victimization experience of female students was more statistically significant than that of male students. The attacking experiences of cyberbullying showed no significant differences between female and male students. In addition, the cyberbullying experiences of both victimization and attacking were the most (I believe an appropriate adjective would needed here; ex. prevalent/common) in/among the students in 3rd grade middle school. The usage of the mobile phone and SNS as well as the usage increase of the mobile phone and SNS had a strong relationship with experience of cyberbullying. (Both the usage and the increase of the mobile phone and SNS had a strong relationship with the experience of cyberbullying.)
Second, the results of the analysis regarding the relationship between the experience of conventional peer bullying (both attacking and victimization) and the experience of cyberbullying (both attacking and victimization) should that, (I think something is definitely missing here; a verb) the former had a significant relationship with the latter in both attacking and victimization. However, the victimization experience of cyberbullying had more significant relationship with the conventional bullying than the attacking experience of cyberbullying.
Third, the relationship between the experience of cyberbullying (both attacking and victimization) and depression, suicidal ideation was analyzed. The result showed that the experiences of both attacking and victimization had a significant relationship with depression. Furthermore, they (what does this refer to? the experiences of both attacking and victimization) had a significant relationship with suicidal ideation as well.
Forth, the relationships between the experience of cyberbullying and peer attachment, parenting attitude were investigated. The experience of cyberbullying (both attacking and victimization) had a negative relationship with peer attachment. The victimization experience of cyberbullying, however, had stronger relationship with peer attachment than the attacking experience. It was also known that the father had more significance (played more significant role) than the mother in terms of the relationship between the experience of cyberbullying and parenting attitude.
Fifth, the moderation effects of parenting attitude and peer attachment on the cyberbullying experience and depression, suicidal ideation were analyzed. The result was there was not moderation effects on the relationship between cyberbullying experience and depression. (The result showed no moderation effects on the relationships between cyberbullying experience and depression.) However, there were moderation effects of parenting attitude on the relationship between cyberbullying experience and suicidal ideation.
Finally, the meaning and the limitations of this study were discussed with suggestions for follow-up studies.