The Relationship Between Cyberbullying And Suicidal Ideation In Junior High School Students

Adolescent suicide,a terrible mental health problem,are deeply concerned by the society.Focusing on suicidal ideation and its related factors are meaningful measure to prevent suicide,because suicidal ideation has a significant predictive effect on suicidal behavior.At present,suicides caused by cyberbullying are not individual cases and should deserve attention.This study aims to understand the relationship between the cyberbullying and suicide in junior school.The chain mediators(i.e.rumination and psychache)are also introduced and help to explore the mediating effect between cyberbullying and suicidal ideation.Specifically,the study collect primary data by means of questionnaire survey,which consist of Revised Cyber Bullying Inventory(RCBI),Ruminative Responses Scale(RRS),Psychological Pain Assessment Scale(PPAS)and Positive and Negative Suicide Ideation(PANSI).Moreover,630 students from different types of junior school(private school,ordinary public school and key public school)were interviewed in Shanxi province,and 543 pieces of feedback were evaluated as valid questionnaire.A series of statistical methods are adopted to analysis the obtained data,such as reliability analysis,t test,intermediary effect analysis and so on.The results of study are as followed:(1)The influence of cyberbullying and suicidal ideation is significantly different for male students and female students in junior school.Male students suffer more cyberbullying(t=3.58,p<0.001),while female students show higher level of suicidal ideation(t=-2.37,p<0.05).(2)Significant positive correlations can be observed between cyberbullying,rumination,psychache and suicidal ideation.There was a significant positive correlation among the four variables of cyberbullying,rumination,psychache and suicidal ideation in junior high school.Cyberbullying can predict rumination and psychache,but cyberbullying cannot predict suicidal ideation.(3)It demonstrated that psychache serves as a mediating role between network bullying and suicidal ideation,with a mediating effect of 0.05.(4)Rumination and psychache play a chain-mediating role between internet bullying and suicidal ideation for junior school students,and the mediating effect is 0.20 correspondingly.Basing on large scale samples and system analysis,the results of current study are not only helpful for online bullying researches,but also provide theoretical support to prevent the suicidal ideation and the suicidal behavior of teenagers.Besides,it appeals for strengthening network supervision policies and legislation to guarantee the teenager's mental health.