The contribution of social support to children and adolescents' self-perception: The mediating role of bullying victimization |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, Margaret & Wallace McCain Family Chair in Child & Family, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5A 1V4, Canada;2. School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel;3. Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V4, Canada;4. School and Clinical Child Psychology, Applied Psychology & Human Development, OISE/University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6, Canada;5. Department of Psychology, Queen''s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada;6. Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr. N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada;7. York University, Department of Psychology, 217 York Lanes, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada;1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States;2. Arizona State University — Phoenix Arizona, United States;3. North Carolina Academic Center for Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention, United States;1. Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior (CCNU), Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430079, China;2. School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this article is to report on a study that explores the linkages among self-perception, perceptions of social support, and bullying involvement among children and youth, with a focus on how bullying victimization mediates the association of social support and self-perception. We employ Harter's multidimensional model of self-esteem (1999; 2012), which highlights the inextricable link of social support to global self-esteem but does not explore the contribution of bullying involvement to this association. Our findings indicate that social support is associated with self-perception, and that traditional victimization mediates the association between social support and self-perception for three self-perception measures: social acceptance, physical appearance, and global self-worth. Contrary to our expectations, cyberbullying victimization was not found to mediate the relationship between social support and self-perception. These findings underscore the importance of exploring both traditional bullying victimization and cyberbullying victimization in relation to social support in order to understand their effect on development and wellbeing. More broadly, this study's finding that social support was a significant buffer to bullying victimization emphasizes the necessity of developing prevention and intervention strategies which are relationship-based and implemented early in young people's lives. |
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