How beliefs and unpleasant emotions direct cyberbullying intentions
This study aims to investigate the role of emotions and beliefs of perceived severity about cyberbullying behavior in the relationship between bystanders’ personal moral beliefs and their behavioral intentions in cyberbullying. A group of 402 fifth to twelfth graders (Mage = 13.12; SD = 2.19; 55.7%...
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| description | This study aims to investigate the role of emotions and beliefs of perceived severity about cyberbullying behavior in the relationship between bystanders’ personal moral beliefs and their behavioral intentions in cyberbullying. A group of 402 fifth to twelfth graders (Mage = 13.12; SD = 2.19; 55.7% were girls) participated and we ran exploratory factorial analyses of the instruments. A group of 676 fifth to twelfth grade students (Mage = 14.10; SD = 2.74; 55.5% were boys) participated and we performed confirmatory factor analyses. A group of middle school students (N = 397; Mage = 13.88 years; SD = 1.45; 55.5% girls) participated and we ran the final analyses aimed to test the research hypotheses. Results from self-report measures showed that unpleasant emotions mediated personal moral beliefs and adolescent bystanders’ intentions to help cybervictims. Normative beliefs of severity mediated the relation between personal moral beliefs and intentions to cyberbully others. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4b82fffe70cc4fafb75f4c3f9669f3aa2023-01-05T08:39:07ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402022-12-01812e12163How beliefs and unpleasant emotions direct cyberbullying intentionsPaula da Costa Ferreira0Ana Margarida Veiga Simão1Vítor Martinho2Nádia Pereira3Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal; CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal; Corresponding author.Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal; CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, PortugalFaculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, PortugalFaculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, Portugal; CICPSI, Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013 Lisboa, PortugalThis study aims to investigate the role of emotions and beliefs of perceived severity about cyberbullying behavior in the relationship between bystanders’ personal moral beliefs and their behavioral intentions in cyberbullying. A group of 402 fifth to twelfth graders (Mage = 13.12; SD = 2.19; 55.7% were girls) participated and we ran exploratory factorial analyses of the instruments. A group of 676 fifth to twelfth grade students (Mage = 14.10; SD = 2.74; 55.5% were boys) participated and we performed confirmatory factor analyses. A group of middle school students (N = 397; Mage = 13.88 years; SD = 1.45; 55.5% girls) participated and we ran the final analyses aimed to test the research hypotheses. Results from self-report measures showed that unpleasant emotions mediated personal moral beliefs and adolescent bystanders’ intentions to help cybervictims. Normative beliefs of severity mediated the relation between personal moral beliefs and intentions to cyberbully others.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402203451XCyberbullyingAdolescenceEmotionsNormative beliefs of severityPersonal moral beliefs |
| spellingShingle | Paula da Costa Ferreira Ana Margarida Veiga Simão Vítor Martinho Nádia Pereira How beliefs and unpleasant emotions direct cyberbullying intentions Heliyon Cyberbullying Adolescence Emotions Normative beliefs of severity Personal moral beliefs |
| title | How beliefs and unpleasant emotions direct cyberbullying intentions |
| title_full | How beliefs and unpleasant emotions direct cyberbullying intentions |
| title_fullStr | How beliefs and unpleasant emotions direct cyberbullying intentions |
| title_full_unstemmed | How beliefs and unpleasant emotions direct cyberbullying intentions |
| title_short | How beliefs and unpleasant emotions direct cyberbullying intentions |
| title_sort | how beliefs and unpleasant emotions direct cyberbullying intentions |
| topic | Cyberbullying Adolescence Emotions Normative beliefs of severity Personal moral beliefs |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402203451X |
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