Psychosocial wellbeing, problematic social media use, and cyberbullying involvement among Mongolian adolescents

Badrakh, A., Larkin, R. ORCID: 0000-0002-8690-1111, Betts, L. ORCID: 0000-0002-6147-8089 and Buglass, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-1079-8461, 2023. Psychosocial wellbeing, problematic social media use, and cyberbullying involvement among Mongolian adolescents. International Journal of Bullying Prevention. ISSN 2523-3653

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Abstract

Cyberbullying among adolescents has been increasingly studied throughout the world as it has become a significant public health concern. However, there is a dearth of research on cyberbullying in Mongolia. This study investigated cyber-perpetration and cyber-victimization experiences among Mongolian adolescents aged 14 to 18 (n = 676) and the relationship between psychosocial well-being, social media use, and cyber-perpetration and victimization. The data were analyzed with SPSS 25 (IBM Corp, 2017; Hayes, 2013). Results showed that 30.2% of participants experienced pure cyber-victimization, 19.0% experienced both perpetration and victimization, and 6.7% experienced pure cyber-perpetration often or occasionally in the past 12 months. Being male significantly predicted cyber-perpetration, and no such gender difference was observed for victimization. Age was not related to either cyber-perpetration or victimization. As hypothesized, the results showed that psychosocial well-being directly predicted cyber-perpetration and victimization and indirectly predicted them through problematic social media use (PSMU). The recommendations, implications, and limitations are discussed regarding these findings.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Journal of Bullying Prevention
Creators:	Badrakh, A., Larkin, R., Betts, L. and Buglass, S.
Publisher:	Springer
Date:	4 November 2023
ISSN:	2523-3653
Identifiers:	Number Type 1823791 Other 10.1007/s42380-023-00202-9 DOI
Rights:	This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	27 Oct 2023 11:00
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2023 13:30
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50143

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