The Structural Model of Relationships Between Personality Pathology Dimensions and Cyberbullying Mediated by Contingent Self-Worth in Adolescent Girls

Maria Poure; Mehrdad Sabet; Fariborz Dortaj; Nasrin Bagheri

doi:10.61838/kman.aftj.5.3.29

Authors

Maria Poure PhD Student Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran

Mehrdad Sabet * Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran mehrdadsabet@yahoo.com

Fariborz Dortaj Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

Nasrin Bagheri Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran

https://doi.org/10.61838/kman.aftj.5.3.29

Keywords:

Personality, Cyberbullying, Contingent Self-Worth

Abstract

Objective: The aim of the present study was to test the structural model of relationships between personality pathology dimensions and cyberbullying mediated by contingent self-worth in adolescent girls.

Methods: This study was tested using the structural equation modeling method. The statistical population of this research included all adolescent female students in District 2 of Tehran during the 2020-2021 academic year. According to the data obtained from the Tehran Department of Education, their total number was 145,398. Based on Michel’s criteria (1993) and using multi-stage cluster sampling, 300 participants were selected as the sample. They responded to the Contingent Self-Worth Questionnaire by Crocker et al. (2003), the Cyberbullying Questionnaire by Antoniadou et al. (2016), and the short form of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5-BF). SPSS.22 and AMOS.22 software were used for data analysis.

Findings: The findings from testing the structural model showed that the direct effect of abnormal personality on contingent self-worth was (-0.33), on cyberbullying (0.26), and the direct effect of contingent self-worth on cyberbullying was (-0.40). Contingent self-worth mediated the relationship between abnormal personality and cyberbullying, with the indirect effect of this relationship being (0.13) (P<0.01). Overall, the results indicated that the tested model had a good fit with the conceptual model (RMSEA=0.06; GFI=0.91).

Conclusion: It can be concluded that contingent self-worth mediates the relationship between dimensions of abnormal personality and cyberbullying.