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The Mediating Effect of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on the Association between Self-Esteem and School Bullying in Middle School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

School bullying is negatively associated with self-esteem, but psychological mediators of bullying have yet to be clarified. We examined regulatory emotional self-efficacy (RESE) as a possible mediator in the association between self-esteem and school bullying. A cross-sectional study of 995 adolesc...

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Autores principales: Wang, Xiaoqin, Zhang, Yue, Hui, Zhaozhao, Bai, Wanyue, Terry, Paul D., Ma, Mei, Li, Yang, Cheng, Li, Gu, Wei, Wang, Mingxu
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5982030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29762464
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15050991
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author Wang, Xiaoqin
Zhang, Yue
Hui, Zhaozhao
Bai, Wanyue
Terry, Paul D.
Ma, Mei
Li, Yang
Cheng, Li
Gu, Wei
Wang, Mingxu
author_facet Wang, Xiaoqin
Zhang, Yue
Hui, Zhaozhao
Bai, Wanyue
Terry, Paul D.
Ma, Mei
Li, Yang
Cheng, Li
Gu, Wei
Wang, Mingxu
author_sort Wang, Xiaoqin
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description School bullying is negatively associated with self-esteem, but psychological mediators of bullying have yet to be clarified. We examined regulatory emotional self-efficacy (RESE) as a possible mediator in the association between self-esteem and school bullying. A cross-sectional study of 995 adolescents was conducted in two middle schools of Xi’an. All of the participants completed the Chinese version of the School Bullying Experience Questionnaire (C-SBEQ), Self-Esteem Scale (SES), and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale (RESE). Descriptive statistics analysis, the bias corrected percentile Bootstrap CI method, and structural equation modelling were used to analyze the data. The results showed that 418 students (42.0%) reported that they were involved in school bullying in the past year. Self-esteem was negatively associated with school bullying (total effect: β = −0.275, 95% CI = −0.381–−0.034), and RESE mediated the association between self-esteem and school bullying (indirect effect: β = −0.136, 95% CI = −0.245–−0.037). Furthermore, self-esteem had an indirect effect through perceived self-efficacy in managing negative affect, while self-esteem had no indirect effect through self-efficacy in the expression of positive affect. The present study suggests that school authorities and the related education departments should not only focus on improving students’ self-esteem, but should also pay more attention to students’ RESE, in order to mitigate, and potentially reduce, the occurrence of bullying.
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spelling pubmed-59820302018-06-07 The Mediating Effect of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on the Association between Self-Esteem and School Bullying in Middle School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study Wang, Xiaoqin Zhang, Yue Hui, Zhaozhao Bai, Wanyue Terry, Paul D. Ma, Mei Li, Yang Cheng, Li Gu, Wei Wang, Mingxu Int J Environ Res Public Health Article School bullying is negatively associated with self-esteem, but psychological mediators of bullying have yet to be clarified. We examined regulatory emotional self-efficacy (RESE) as a possible mediator in the association between self-esteem and school bullying. A cross-sectional study of 995 adolescents was conducted in two middle schools of Xi’an. All of the participants completed the Chinese version of the School Bullying Experience Questionnaire (C-SBEQ), Self-Esteem Scale (SES), and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale (RESE). Descriptive statistics analysis, the bias corrected percentile Bootstrap CI method, and structural equation modelling were used to analyze the data. The results showed that 418 students (42.0%) reported that they were involved in school bullying in the past year. Self-esteem was negatively associated with school bullying (total effect: β = −0.275, 95% CI = −0.381–−0.034), and RESE mediated the association between self-esteem and school bullying (indirect effect: β = −0.136, 95% CI = −0.245–−0.037). Furthermore, self-esteem had an indirect effect through perceived self-efficacy in managing negative affect, while self-esteem had no indirect effect through self-efficacy in the expression of positive affect. The present study suggests that school authorities and the related education departments should not only focus on improving students’ self-esteem, but should also pay more attention to students’ RESE, in order to mitigate, and potentially reduce, the occurrence of bullying. MDPI 2018-05-15 2018-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5982030/ /pubmed/29762464 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15050991 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Xiaoqin
Zhang, Yue
Hui, Zhaozhao
Bai, Wanyue
Terry, Paul D.
Ma, Mei
Li, Yang
Cheng, Li
Gu, Wei
Wang, Mingxu
The Mediating Effect of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on the Association between Self-Esteem and School Bullying in Middle School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title The Mediating Effect of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on the Association between Self-Esteem and School Bullying in Middle School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full The Mediating Effect of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on the Association between Self-Esteem and School Bullying in Middle School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr The Mediating Effect of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on the Association between Self-Esteem and School Bullying in Middle School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed The Mediating Effect of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on the Association between Self-Esteem and School Bullying in Middle School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short The Mediating Effect of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on the Association between Self-Esteem and School Bullying in Middle School Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort mediating effect of regulatory emotional self-efficacy on the association between self-esteem and school bullying in middle school students: a cross-sectional study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5982030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29762464
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15050991
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