Cyberbullying involvement in adolescence: Associations with emotion regulation, metacognitive beliefs, loneliness, and perceived social support in a cross-sectional study.

Résumé

Cyberbullying is an increasingly prevalent public mental health concern during adolescence and is associated with substantial emotional and interpersonal difficulties. In this cross-sectional, school-based study, we examined the interrelated associations of emotion regulation difficulties, maladaptive metacognitive beliefs, loneliness, perceived social support, and duration of social media use with cybervictimization and cyberbullying perpetration in a school-based sample of 600 adolescents aged 14 to 18 years. Participants completed the Revised Cyber Bullying Inventory-II, the Metacognitions Questionnaire for Children, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form (DERS-SF), the UCLA Loneliness Scale-Short Form, and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). Cybervictimization was positively associated with DERS-SF (r = 0.36, P