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Relationships of depression, anxiety, and stress with committing and experiencing cyber-violence

Previous research shows how depression, anxiety, and stress correlate with committing and experiencing cyber-violence. However, the nature of the relationship between these variables is not conclusive due to a lack of longitudinal research. In this research, we have collected data on the committing and experiencing cyber-violence, depression, anxiety, and stress (DAS) from 293 adolescents in two waves. The research objective was to compare the contributions of DAS predictors measured in the first wave to cyber- violence in the first and second waves (and vice versa) while controlling gender and age. The results of hierarchical regression analyses show that DAS explained 14.5% of the variance of experiencing cyber-bullying in the first wave and 12% of the variance in the second wave. DAS and gender predictors explained a smaller portion of the variance of committing cyber-bullying (6% in the first wave and 7% in the second wave). Cyber- violence explained 12.8% of depression variance in the first wave and 9.3% in the second wave. Concerning anxiety, cyber-violence contributed to 9.8% of the variance in the first wave and 9.2% in the second wave. Finally, cyber- violence explained 8.3% of stress variance in the first wave and 6.2% in the second wave. Depression, anxiety, and stress explained more variance of experiencing cyber-violence than committing it. The percentage of explained variance for committing cyber-violence in the second wave increased slightly compared to the first wave. Additional analyses showed that girls' anxiety slightly increases their cyber-violent behavior two months later indicating the need to address it through school prevention programs.

cyber-violence ; depression ; anxiety ; stress ; adolescents

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