Resilience levels of Turkish adolescents cyber-victims in social networking sites: The mediation roles of cyberbullying and active coping

This study aims to determine the factors that may affect the relationship between the level of cyber victims' use of social networks and psychological resilience. 420 Turkish adolescents between the ages of 14 and 19 participated in the study, with 56% representing male students and 44% representing females (Mage = 15.57, SD = 1.43). The data collection tools used in this study include the Cyber-Victimization Scale, the Scale of the Goals of Using Social Media, the Active Coping Scale, Child, and Youth Resilience Measure, and the Cyberbullying Coping Questionnaire for Adolescents. We used SPSS 22 and AMOS 22 for statistical analysis. This study indicates that there are statistically significant positive relations between the variables of using social networking sites, resilience, and active coping and coping with cyberbullying. The study findings show that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between the level of use of social networking sites by cyberbullying victims and resilience. Moreover, it is clear that active coping and coping with cyber-bullying respectively have a mediating effect on the positive relationship between the level of using social networking sites and resilience. These findings provide new evidence on how the use of social networking sites by adolescents experiencing cyber victimization affects resilience and provide important information to increase resilience.

Dergi

CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY

Yıl

2023

Cilt

42

Sayı

22

Sayfa

19286-19301

ISSN

1046-1310

eISSN

1936-4733

DOI

10.1007/s12144-022-04163-y

WoS UID

WOS:000903839000002