Cyberbullying in context: Direct and indirect effects by low self-control across 25 European countries

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Authors

VAZSONYI Alexander T. MACHÁČKOVÁ Hana ŠEVČÍKOVÁ Anna ŠMAHEL David ČERNÁ Alena

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source European Journal of Developmental Psychology
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Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17405629.2011.644919
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2011.644919
Field Psychology
Keywords Cyberbullying Self-control Deviance Problem behaviours Cross-cultural
Description Random samples of at least 1,000 youth, ages 9 to 16 years, from 25 European countries (N = 25,142) were used to test the salience of low self-control on cyberbullying perpetration and victimization (direct and indirect effects), framed by a cross-cultural developmental approach. Path models, which provided evidence of invariance by sex, tested the hypothesized links among low self-control as well as known correlates, including offline perpetration and victimization, and externalizing behaviours. Results showed positive associations between online and offline bullying behaviours (perpetration and victimization), and, more interestingly, both direct but mostly indirect effects by low self-control on cyberbullying perpetration and victimization; externalizing behaviours had little additional explanatory power. Importantly, multi-group tests by country samples provided evidence of quite modest differences in the tested links across the 25 developmental contexts, despite some observed differences in the amount of variance explained in the dependent measures.
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