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The purpose of this study is to examine the mediation effect of depression and moderated mediation effect of perceived respect for human rights between discrimination victim experience and discrimination behavior among elementary school students. Data collected from the Korean Human Rights Practices Survey for Children and Adolescents (Kim et al., 2022) were used to analyze the data of 2,994 students in early adolescence. The analyses were conducted using SPSS 25.0 and the Process Macro for SPSS 4.1 (Hayes, 2022), model 4 and model 7. The results showed that the mediating effect of depression between elementary school students' discrimination victim experience and discriminatory behavior was significant. In addition, the moderating effect of perceived respect for human rights was found in the relationship between their discrimination victim experience and depression. Finally, the moderated mediating effect of perceived respect for human rights was significant, and the mediating effect became smaller as the level of respect for human rights increased. This study confirms the direct effect of discrimination victim experience on discriminatory behavior, the indirect effect through depression, and the moderated mediating effect of respect for human rights, providing empirical data for prevention and intervention of discriminatory behavior from early adolescence.
In‐Suk Choi (Sun,) studied this question.