Examining the longitudinal relationship between family conflict and bullying in Chinese children: The serial mediating roles of personal mastery and social anxiety

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-02 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2024.112978

Xiaowei Chu , Wenyu Ji , Qing Li

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Family conflict has been identified as a significant predictor of bullying. However, there is a lack of research exploring the underlying mechanism of this association. The present study investigated the potential mediating roles of personal mastery and social anxiety in the relationship between family conflict and bullying perpetration and victimization. A total of 541 Chinese children (female: 53.77 %) aged 8 to 12 (M = 9.69, SD = 0.96) participated in this survey. The survey was conducted in two waves with a six-month interval. Participants completed self-report questionnaires on research variables. Results indicated that family conflict cross-sectionally predicted bullying perpetration and victimization. Furthermore, these cross-sectional relationships were serially mediated by personal mastery and social anxiety. The findings suggest that family conflict plays an important role in child bullying and that this relationship works through the chain mediation of personal mastery and social anxiety. Educators should pay special attention to children's personal mastery and social anxiety, as well as the adverse effects of family conflicts, to provide targeted interventions for child bullying.

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中国儿童家庭冲突与欺凌的纵向关系研究：个人掌握和社交焦虑的连续中介作用

家庭冲突被认为是霸凌的重要预测因素。然而，缺乏对这种关联的潜在机制的研究。本研究探讨了个人掌握和社会焦虑在家庭冲突与霸凌行为和受害关系中的潜在中介作用。共有541名8 ~ 12岁的中国儿童参加了本次调查，其中女性占53.77% （M = 9.69, SD = 0.96）。该调查分两批进行，每隔六个月进行一次。参与者完成了关于研究变量的自我报告问卷。结果表明，家庭冲突对霸凌行为的发生和受害具有横断面预测作用。此外，这些横截面关系被个人掌握和社交焦虑依次中介。研究结果表明，家庭冲突在儿童欺凌中起着重要作用，这种关系是通过个人控制和社会焦虑的连锁中介作用的。教育工作者应特别关注儿童的个人控制和社交焦虑，以及家庭冲突的不利影响，为儿童欺凌提供有针对性的干预措施。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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577

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41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.