TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wright, Michelle F.
A1  - Wachs, Sebastian
A1  - Gamez-Guadix, Manuel
T1  - The Role of Perceived Gay-Straight Alliance Social Support in the Longitudinal Association Between Homophobic Cyberbullying and LGBTQIA Adolescents' Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms
JF  - Journal of youth and adolescence : a multidisciplinary research publication
N2  - There has been little research attention given to how Gay-Straight Alliances might mitigate mental health consequences associated with experiencing homophobic cyberbullying. To address this gap in knowledge, the purpose of this one-year longitudinal study was to investigate the moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances in the relationships among homophobic cyberbullying victimization and bystanding and depressive and anxiety symptoms among 466 LGBTQIA adolescents (M-age = 15.76; 52% female). The findings revealed that perceived social support was related negatively to homophobic cyberbullying involvement and depressive and anxiety symptoms. Homophobic cyberbullying involvement was related positively to depressive and anxiety symptoms. High perceived social support buffered against the depressive and anxiety symptoms resulting from homophobic victimization and bystanding among LGBTQIA adolescents but low levels and average levels did not moderate these associations. These findings highlight the importance of expanding Gay-Straight Alliances in schools.
KW  - Homophobic
KW  - Cyberbullying
KW  - LGBT
KW  - Depression
KW  - Anxiety
KW  - Gay-Straight Alliance
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01585-6
SN  - 0047-2891
SN  - 1573-6601
VL  - 51
IS  - 7
SP  - 1388
EP  - 1396
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wright, Michelle F.
A1  - Harper, Bridgette D.
A1  - Wachs, Sebastian
T1  - The associations between cyberbullying and callous-unemotional traits among adolescents
BT  - the moderating effect of online disinhibition
JF  - Personality and individual differences : an international journal of research into the structure and development of personality, and the causation of individual differences
N2  - The aim of the present study was to investigate the potential moderating role of online disinhibition in the associations between adolescents' callous-unemotional traits (callousness, uncaring, unemotional) and anonymous and non-anonymous cyberbullying. To this end, 1047 (49.2% female) 7th and 8th graders completed questionnaires on their face-to-face bullying, cyberbullying, callous-unemotional traits, and online disinhibition. The findings revealed that increases in uncaring were more associated with self-reported non-anonymous and anonymous cyberbullying at higher levels of online disinhibition. The findings are discussed in the context of the characteristics associated with callous-unemotional traits, and how these characteristics increase adolescents' risk of cyberbullying perpetration. Recommendations are made for tailoring intervention programs to consider adolescents' personality traits.
KW  - Cyberbullying
KW  - Callous-unemotional traits
KW  - Callousness
KW  - Uncaring
KW  - Unemotional
KW  - Online disinhibition
KW  - Anonymity
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.04.001
SN  - 0191-8869
VL  - 140
SP  - 41
EP  - 45
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wright, Michelle F.
A1  - Wachs, Sebastian
T1  - Adolescents' emotional reactions for not intervening in cyberbullying as moderators in the longitudinal association between witnessing cyberbullying and health issues
JF  - Current psychology
N2  - Not much is known about how bystanders' emotional reactions after not intervening in cyberbullying might impact their health issues. Narrowing this gap in the literature, the present study focused on examining the moderating effects of emotional reactions (i.e., guilt, sadness, anger) after not intervening in cyberbullying on the longitudinal relationship between cyberbullying bystanding and health issues (i.e., subjective health complaints, suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self-harm). Participants were 1,067 adolescents between 12 and 15 years old included in this study (M-age = 13.67; 51% girls). The findings showed a positive association between Time 1 cyberbullying bystanding and Time 2 health issues. Guilt moderated the positive relationships among Time 1 cyberbullying bystanding, Time 2 subjective health complaints, suicidal ideation, and non-suicidal self-harm. Time 1 sadness also moderated the relationship between Time 1 cyberbullying bystanding and Time 2 suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-harm. However, anger did not moderate any of the associations.
KW  - Bystanding
KW  - Cyberbullying
KW  - Guilt
KW  - Anger
KW  - Sadness
KW  - Health Issues;
KW  - Suicidal ideation
KW  - Self-harm
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03773-w
SN  - 1046-1310
SN  - 1936-4733
SP  - 19378
EP  - 19385
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -