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A Study on Parental Control, School Involvement, and Friendship that Influence Adolescent Cyberbullying -focusing on the mediation effect on the attitude to cyberbullying

  • Health Communication Research
  • 2022, 21(1), pp.121-162
  • DOI : 10.24172/hcr.2022.21.1.121
  • Publisher : Korea Health Communication Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Journalism and Broadcasting > Communication
  • Received : January 10, 2022
  • Accepted : July 16, 2022
  • Published : July 31, 2022

Kim Bong Seob 1

1한국지능정보사회진흥원

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ABSTRACT

This study aimed to identify the influence of parent, school, and friend on cyberbullying, which is recognized as ‘social death’ among adolescents. Based on the claim that social control group such as parent, school, and friend had a great influence on online youth behavior, this was intended to investigate whether these groups actually exercise their influence in relations with cyberbullying. This was to provide basic data for effective cyberbulllying prevention and countermeasure. To that end, the second analysis was conducted using the 2020 results of the annual Cyber Violence Survey. Based on school statistics at the Korea Educational Development Institute, a total of 4,958 students from fourth graders to high school students in 17 cities and provinces nationwide were analyzed through stratified class extraction by class, region, and grade. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed that if adolescents have low school involvement to prevent cyberbullying and a unfriendly relations with friend, their experience of cyberbullying increases. On the other hand, it was found that the digital control of parents did not directly affect the experience of cyberbullying. Finally, the attitude to cyberbullying was identified as an important factor in expanding and strengthening their influence on cyberbullying by mediating parental control, school involvement, and friendship. According to these results, it was revealed that cyberbullying prevention programs should include measures to foster negative and pessimistic attitudes toward cyberbullying as well as intervention measures for school and friend.

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