Traditional and Cyberbullying Victimization, Relative Deprivation, and Internet Gaming Addiction of Adolescents: Does Gender Make a Difference?
This study examined the relationship between traditional and cyberbullying victimization and Internet gaming addiction in a large sample of adolescents (N = 2001) from Mainland China. We further explored whether the above relationship could be mediated by relative deprivation. Moreover, group differ...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 34; no. 9; pp. 2321 - 2333 |
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Sep2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=187972952&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 187972952 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10621024 JFM jtl: Journal of Child & Family Studies issn: 10621024 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2025 vid: 34 iid: 9 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 187972952 10.1007/s10826-025-03115-x ppf: 2321 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 756KB tig: atl: Traditional and Cyberbullying Victimization, Relative Deprivation, and Internet Gaming Addiction of Adolescents: Does Gender Make a Difference? aug: au: Cheng, Yuhang Jiang, Shan affil: https://ror.org/00t33hh48 Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T, Hong Kong, China https://ror.org/00a2xv884 Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China su: China Victims Cross-sectional method Cyberbullying Sex distribution Bullying Social isolation Video games Adolescence Compulsive behavior -- Risk factors Research funding Questionnaires Structural equation modeling Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Data analysis software Confidence intervals sug: subj: Victims Cross-sectional method Cyberbullying Sex distribution Bullying Social isolation Video games Adolescence China Video game design and development services Video game publishers Doll, Toy, and Game Manufacturing Home entertainment equipment merchant wholesalers Compulsive behavior -- Risk factors Research funding Questionnaires Structural equation modeling Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Data analysis software Confidence intervals keyword: Adolescent Cyberbullying victimization Gender Internet gaming addiction Relative deprivation Traditional bullying victimization Adolescent Cyberbullying victimization Gender Internet gaming addiction Relative deprivation Traditional bullying victimization ab: This study examined the relationship between traditional and cyberbullying victimization and Internet gaming addiction in a large sample of adolescents (N = 2001) from Mainland China. We further explored whether the above relationship could be mediated by relative deprivation. Moreover, group differences were tested between male and female adolescents to determine whether gender could moderate the conceptual model in this study. Data collection was performed through a cross-sectional survey and data analyses were conducted using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and multi-group analysis in SEM. The results indicated that only cyberbullying victimization was directly associated with Internet gaming addiction. Relative deprivation fully mediated the relationship between traditional bullying victimization and Internet gaming addiction, and partially mediated the association between cyberbullying victimization and Internet gaming addiction. However, no significant gender differences were observed in the effects of traditional and cyberbullying victimization on Internet gaming addiction via relative deprivation in our sample. These findings suggest that bullying victimization is a significant factor associated with Internet gaming addiction, with relative deprivation serving as a mediator in this relationship. The conceptual model proposed in our study applies to both male and female adolescents. However, due to the cross-sectional research design of this study, there is no way of ruling that the associations may be in the opposite direction than hypothesized. Hence, the proposed model needs to be further validated through longitudinal studies in the future. Practical implications were also discussed. Highlights: Cyberbullying victimization was directly associated with Internet gaming addiction among Chinese adolescents. Relative deprivation mediated the relationships between both traditional and cyberbullying victimization and Internet gaming addiction. No gender differences were observed in the pathway coefficients in our conceptual model. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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