TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wachs, Sebastian
A1  - Bilz, Ludwig
A1  - Fischer, Saskia M.
A1  - Wright, Michelle F.
T1  - Do emotional components of alexithymia mediate the interplay between cyberbullying victimization and perpetration?
JF  - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
N2  - A substantial amount of research has revealed that cyberbully-victims have more emotional and behavioral problems than either cyberbullying victims or perpetrators. However, until now, little research has been conducted into the factors that contribute to the interplay between cyberbullying victimization and perpetration. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between cyberbullying victimization, perpetration, and two emotional components of alexithymia, namely difficulties in identifying and describing one's own feelings. Self-report questions were administered to 1549 adolescents between 12 and 18 years old (M = 14.51; SD = 1.68; 42.1% (n = 652) male) from Germany and Thailand. Results showed that cyberbullying victimization and alexithymia are associated with cyberbullying perpetration. Moreover, alexithymia mediated the associations between cyberbullying victimization and adolescents' cyberbullying perpetration. Consequently, we suggest that the ability to describe and identify one's own feelings might be important for understanding the link between cyberbullying, victimization, and perpetration. The results may help develop prevention and intervention programs focused on reducing cyberbullying.
KW  - alexithymia
KW  - cyberbully-victims
KW  - cyberbullying
KW  - cybervictimization
KW  - mediation
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14121530
SN  - 1660-4601
VL  - 14
IS  - 12
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - INPR
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
T1  - Restoring the spirit of fair play in the debate about violent video games a comment on Elson and Ferguson (2013)
T2  - EUROPEAN PSYCHOLOGIST
N2  - This commentary argues that, rather than providing an "exhaustive review," Elson and Ferguson (2013) discuss a selective sample of empirical studies on violent video game use which corroborate their claim that there is no systematic evidence for a link between violent video game play and aggression. In evaluating the evidence, the authors portray a biased picture of the current state of knowledge about media violence effects. They fail to distinguish between aggression and violence and between everyday and clinical forms of aggression. Furthermore, they misrepresent key constructs, such as mediation, moderation, and external validity, to discredit methodologies used to assess aggression and media violence use. The paper moves the debate backward rather than forward, falling behind existing meta-analytic studies that consider a much wider and more balanced range of studies.
KW  - media violence
KW  - aggression
KW  - mediation
KW  - socialization effects
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000165
SN  - 1016-9040
SN  - 1878-531X
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
SP  - 56
EP  - 59
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Kirkland
ER  -