The Relationship Between Covert Narcissism And Cyberbullying Among College Students:The Role Of Hostility Attribution And Perceived Social Support

With the rapid development of information technology,bullying has also extended from the real life to the network platform,resulting in a new form of bullying.As college students are one of the major Internet users,cyberbullying will bring bad effects to their learning and life.So how to reduce the frequency of their bullying is crucial.Therefore,it is of practical and theoretical significance to explore the influencing mechanism of College Students’ cyberbullying.Based on the general aggression model and the buffering model,the questionnaire was distributed to the national university students on the questionnaire platform.SPSS 21.0 was used to preliminarily sort the data and conduct a correlation analysis and reliability test.It was also used to explore the relationship between covert narcissism and cyberbullying,and the role of hostility attribution and perceived social support.The results are shown below:(1)Different gender,different grades,whether has an only child or not has a salient difference in bullying behavior,but in different origins,there is no significant difference between different home places.The level of male students’ cyberbullying was significantly higher than that of female college students,and the network bullying level of the only child was significantly higher than that of non-only child.The level of cyberbullying of freshmen is significantly higher than that of junior,senior,and graduate students.The level of cyberbullying of sophomores,junior and senior students is significantly higher than that of graduate students,but there are no significant differences among sophomores,junior and senior students.(2)Covert narcissism has significant differences in the places of origin and whether it is an only child or not.The level of covert narcissism of urban college students is significantly higher than that of rural college students.The level of covert narcissism of only children was significantly higher than that of non-only child.(3)There are significant gender differences in hostility attribution.Female students’ hostility attribution level was significantly higher than male college students.(4)Different gender,different grade,whether has an only child or not has significant difference in perceived social support.The perceived social support level of male college students is significantly higher than that of female college students.The perceived social support level of urban college students was significantly higher than that of rural college students,and the only child’s perceived social support level was significantly higher than that of the non-only child.(5)Covert narcissism significantly positively predicted cyberbullying and hostility attribution,and hostility attribution significantly positively predicted cyberbullying.(6)Hostile attribution mediates the impact of covert narcissism on cyberbullying.(7)Perceived social support moderates the relationship between covert narcissism and cyberbullying.