The Influence of Personality Traits on School Bullying: A Moderated Mediation Model

We recruited 1,631 middle and high school students to explore the relationship between personality traits and school bullying, and the moderated and mediating roles of self-concept and loneliness on this relationship. Results showed that (1) neuroticism had a significant positive predictive effect o...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yun, Li, Zuoshan, Tan, Yalan, Zhang, Xi, Zhao, Qingyu, Chen, Xin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34093338
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650070
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author Zhang, Yun
Li, Zuoshan
Tan, Yalan
Zhang, Xi
Zhao, Qingyu
Chen, Xin
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description We recruited 1,631 middle and high school students to explore the relationship between personality traits and school bullying, and the moderated and mediating roles of self-concept and loneliness on this relationship. Results showed that (1) neuroticism had a significant positive predictive effect on being bullied, extroversion had a significant negative predictive effect on being bullied, and agreeableness had a significant negative predictive effect on bullying/being bullied; (2) loneliness played a mediating role between neuroticism and bullied behaviors, extroversion and bullying behaviors, and agreeableness and bullying/bullied behaviors; (3) self-concept played a moderating role on the mediation pathway of loneliness on neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness and bullying behaviors. Therefore, to reduce the frequency of school bullying among adolescents, we should not only reduce their levels of loneliness but also improve their levels of self-concept.
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spelling pubmed-81770842021-06-05 The Influence of Personality Traits on School Bullying: A Moderated Mediation Model Zhang, Yun Li, Zuoshan Tan, Yalan Zhang, Xi Zhao, Qingyu Chen, Xin Front Psychol Psychology We recruited 1,631 middle and high school students to explore the relationship between personality traits and school bullying, and the moderated and mediating roles of self-concept and loneliness on this relationship. Results showed that (1) neuroticism had a significant positive predictive effect on being bullied, extroversion had a significant negative predictive effect on being bullied, and agreeableness had a significant negative predictive effect on bullying/being bullied; (2) loneliness played a mediating role between neuroticism and bullied behaviors, extroversion and bullying behaviors, and agreeableness and bullying/bullied behaviors; (3) self-concept played a moderating role on the mediation pathway of loneliness on neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness and bullying behaviors. Therefore, to reduce the frequency of school bullying among adolescents, we should not only reduce their levels of loneliness but also improve their levels of self-concept. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8177084/ /pubmed/34093338 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650070 Text en Copyright © 2021 Zhang, Li, Tan, Zhang, Zhao and Chen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Zhao, Qingyu
Chen, Xin
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title_sort influence of personality traits on school bullying: a moderated mediation model
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34093338
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