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

Peker A., Yalçın R. Ü.

CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY, cilt.42, ss.19286-19301, 2023 (SSCI)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 42
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s12144-022-04163-y
  • Dergi Adı: CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, BIOSIS, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.19286-19301
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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