TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wright, Michelle F.
A1  - Wachs, Sebastian
A1  - Harper, Bridgette D.
T1  - The moderation of empathy in the longitudinal association between witnessing cyberbullying, depression, and anxiety
JF  - Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace
N2  - While the role of and consequences of being a bystander to face-to-face bullying has received some attention in the literature, to date, little is known about the effects of being a bystander to cyberbullying. It is also unknown how empathy might impact the negative consequences associated with being a bystander of cyberbullying. The present study focused on examining the longitudinal association between bystander of cyberbullying depression, and anxiety, and the moderating role of empathy in the relationship between bystander of cyberbullying and subsequent depression and anxiety. There were 1,090 adolescents (M-age = 12.19; 50% female) from the United States included at Time 1, and they completed questionnaires on empathy, cyberbullying roles (bystander, perpetrator, victim), depression, and anxiety. One year later, at Time 2, 1,067 adolescents (M-age = 13.76; 51% female) completed questionnaires on depression and anxiety. Results revealed a positive association between bystander of cyberbullying and depression and anxiety. Further, empathy moderated the positive relationship between bystander of cyberbullying and depression, but not for anxiety. Implications for intervention and prevention programs are discussed.
KW  - Bystander
KW  - cyberbullying
KW  - empathy
KW  - depression
KW  - anxiety
KW  - longitudinal
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2018-4-6
SN  - 1802-7962
VL  - 12
IS  - 4
PB  - Masrykova Univ.
CY  - Brno
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wright, Michelle F.
A1  - Harper, Bridgette D.
A1  - Wachs, Sebastian
T1  - Differences in Adolescents’ Response Decision and Evaluation for
Face-to-Face and Cyber Victimization
JF  - The Journal of Early Adolescence
N2  - The current study was designed to assess early adolescents’ response evaluation and decision for hypothetical peer victimization vignettes. Participants were 336 (59% girls; X¯¯¯ age = 12.55) seventh and eighth graders from one school in the Midwestern United States. Adolescents read a hypothetical online or offline social situation and answered questions designed to access internal congruence, response evaluation, response efficacy, emotional outcome expectancy, and social outcome expectancy. Girls were more likely to believe that aggressive responses online and offline would lead to positive social and emotional outcome expectancies when compared with boys. Adolescents were more likely to believe that offline and online aggressive responses were legitimate responses to face-to-face victimization, feel that aggressive responses online or offline were easier to execute in response to face-to-face victimization, and that aggressive responses online or offline would lead to positive emotions and better social outcomes.
KW  - response decision
KW  - response evaluation
KW  - cyber aggression
KW  - cyberbullying
KW  - aggression
KW  - bullying
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431618806052
SN  - 0272-4316
SN  - 1552-5449
VL  - 39
IS  - 8
SP  - 1110
EP  - 1128
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -