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Cyberbullying is a prevalent issue among university students (Abaido, 2020; Faucher et al., 2014; Kokkinos & Antoniadou, 2019), and cyberbullying is a problem that has negatively impacted students’ mental health (Cassidy et al., 2017; Faucher et al., 2014; Martínez-Monteagudo et al., 2020). Thus, it is important to study university cyberbullying, including moral processing. In more detail, the research aimed to investigate whether cyberbullying involvement (as a bully, victim, or bystander): (a) predicted moral injury (MI, Litz et al., 2009) directly, and (b) whether moral distress (MDIS, Jameton, 1984), collective moral disengagement (CMD, Bandura, 2002) and moral disengagement (MD, Bandura, 2002) indirectly influenced this relationship. The research was conducted with 357 university students in the UK who completed an online survey to assess their involvement in cyberbullying as a bully, victim, and bystander and their MI, CMD, MDIS and MD. The results showed that being a victim and a bystander positively predicted MI directly. Also, being a bystander positively predicted MI indirectly through MDIS. The other relationships were not significant. These results will hopefully help the scientific community understand cyberbullying more and find solution to alleviate the issue among university students.
Keywords
Cyberbullying and Morality
| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Scientific |
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| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Quantitative method study |
