ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Exploring Multivariate Profiles of Psychological Distress and Empathy in Early Adolescent Victims, Bullies, and Bystanders Involved in Cyberbullying Episodes.
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- Factors associated with bystander intervention in cyberbullying: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
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- Exploring the relationships among online social capital, Internet self-efficacy, mental health, and cyberbully-victim roles in adolescents: a structural equation model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of school bullying among adolescents in Inner Mongolia, China.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Correction: Fabris et al. Exploring Multivariate Profiles of Psychological Distress and Empathy in Early Adolescent Victims, Bullies, and Bystanders Involved in Cyberbullying Episodes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Recognizing the Frequency of Exposure to Cyberbullying in Children: The Results of the National HBSC Study in Serbia.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The developmental process of suicidal ideation among adolescents: social and psychological impact from a nation-wide survey.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Role of Empathy in Alcohol Use of Bullying Perpetrators and Victims: Lower Personal Empathic Distress Makes Male Perpetrators of Bullying More Vulnerable to Alcohol Use.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Assessing Cyberbullying in Adolescence: New Evidence for the Spanish Version of the European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionnaire (ECIP-Q).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Involvement in cyberbullying events and empathy are related to emotional responses to simulated social pain tasks.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
(1) Background: Adolescents may be involved in cyberbullying as victims, perpetrators, or to a lesser extent, victim-perpetrators simultaneously. The present research investigated differences between participants acting in different bullying roles-namely, bully, victim, or bully/victim-and bystander roles-namely, defending, passive bystander, and passive/defending; (2) Methods: We used multivariate analysis of covariance to determine how, in the same individuals, direct involvement in cyberbullying episodes compares to participating in them as by-standers in relation to both psychological distress and empathy; (3) Results: Both victims and bully/victims were found to be at increased risk for suicidal ideation, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and emotional dysregulation compared with students who were neither victims nor perpetrators of cyberbullying episodes. Additionally, victims showed higher empathy scores when compared with bullies and bully/victims. All bystander roles showed increased emotional dysregulation compared with uninvolved students, but no differences emerged on other psychological distress measures. Finally, defending bystanders showed increased cognitive empathy. (4) Conclusions: During early adolescence, the direct experience of cyberbullying, as a bully or a victim (or both), show a stronger association with psychological distress than the mere participation in cyberbullying as a witness, regardless of the witness acting defensive toward the victim, or passive. However, both cyberbullying and bystanding roles provide a similar (small) explicative power over empathy variables.
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