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October 1, 2025MedicineOpen Access

How family cohesion affects adolescents’ cyberbullying: The chain mediating role of social support and self-esteem

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ZXZhiyong XiaoYSYanhong ShaoSCSishi Chen

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Overview

Analysis reveals family cohesion lowers cyberbullying in adolescents, indicating social support and self-esteem play critical mediating roles.

Key Points

  • Family cohesion significantly reduces adolescent cyberbullying through unique pathways of social support.
  • Social support and self-esteem independently mediate the effect of family cohesion on cyberbullying outcomes.
  • The strongest mediation occurs via the path family cohesion → social support → cyberbullying.
  • Using structural equation modeling, relationships were analyzed in a sample of 944 middle school students.

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Xiao et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68dd91d5fe798ba2fc499176https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000044579
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