The Impact Of Parental Control On Cyberbullying Among High School Students

With the growing popularity of the Internet,cyberbullying gradually appears in people's vision.Cyberbullying refers to the repeated harmful behaviors that individuals or groups intentionally harm others' physical and mental health through electronic or network.Online bullying not only affects the current emotional state of participants,but also more likely to pose a huge threat on their physical and mental health.For example,victims may have negative emotions,such as anger,social anxiety,depression,self-esteem decline,helplessness and so on.If they are allowed to develop,they may even have negative coping behaviors such as suicide,Internet addiction,alcoholism and bullying.In this study,parental control questionnaire,moral disengagement questionnaire,moral identity questionnaire and cyberbullying questionnaire were used to investigate the Internet use and individual features of high school students in Dingzhou City to explore the influences of family and individual factors on cyberbullying of senior high school students.346 questionnaires were distributed and 303 effective questionnaires were collected.The main conclusions of the study are as follows:(1)The frequency of high school students' Cyberbullying was 85.56%,indicating that most high school students had involved in certain form of cyberbullying.(2)There were significant demographic differences in high school students' cyberbullying,parental control,moral disengagement and moral identity.There were significant gender differences in high school students' cyberbullying,parents' behavior control,moral disengagement and moral identity.Among them,the cyberbullying of female students was significantly lower than that of male students;the behavior control of parents to female students was higher than that of male students;the moral disengagement of male students was higher than that of female students;the moral identity of male students was lower than that of female students.There were differences in family structure in psychological control,moral identity and cyberbullying.The psychological control of the only child was significantly lower than that of the non-only child,and the moral identity of the non-only child was significantly higher than that of the only child,and the cyberbullying of the only child was significantly higher than that of the non-only child.(3)There was a significant correlation between parents' psychological control,behavior control and moral disengagement,moral identity and cyberbullying of senior high school students.Specifically,cyberbullying and behavior control had significant negative correlations with moral identity,indicating that with the increase of behavior control and moral identity,cyberbullying decreased;cyberbullying and psychological control had significant positive correlations with moral disengagement,that is,with the increase of psychological control and moral disengagement,cyberbullying also increased.(4)Moral disengagement and moral identity played a complete chain mediating role in the both dimensions of parental control(psychological control and behavior control)and the impact of high school students' cyberbullying behavior.In sum,the society,school and family should pay more attention to the network problem behavior of senior high school students and strengthen the moral education of senior high school students.Not only pay attention to the importance of parents' psychological control and behavior control,moral disengagement and moral identity,but also grasp each specific path of influence.