Bullying and Social Anxiety in Chinese Children: Moderating Roles of Trait Resilience and Psychological Suzhi |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Psychology, Research Center of Mental Health Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China;2. Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 610052, China;1. Faculty of Psychology, Research Center of Mental Health Education, Southwest University, Tiansheng Road, No. 2, Beibei District, Chongqing 400715, China;2. Faculty of Psychology, Research Center of Mental Health Education, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China;3. Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Psychology, Gutenbergstr. 18, D-35032 Marburg, Germany;1. Department of Maternal and Child Health and MOE Key Lab of Environment and Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, No 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan, Hubei, China;2. National Center for Women and Children''s Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, No 12 Dahuishi Road, Beijing, China;3. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States;1. Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China;2. Research Center of Mental Health Education, Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, China;3. Institute of Education, China West Normal University, China;4. Sichuan Institute of Education Sciences, China;5. School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, China |
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| Abstract: | Research examining the relationship between bullying victimization and social anxiety has mainly been conducted in Western countries, and little is known about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. This study explores the correlation between bullying victimization and social anxiety in a Chinese context and determines the moderating roles of psychological suzhi (a mental quality characterized by being steady, essential and implicit that affects adaptive, developmental, and creative behavior) and trait resilience among victims of bullying. Data were obtained from a stratified sample of 1903 children in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. All participants completed measures of bullying victimization, social anxiety, trait resilience, and psychological suzhi. The results indicated that, after controlling for grade, residential area, and parental marital status, bullying victimization positively predicted children’s social anxiety. In addition, multi-group analysis suggested that the association in girls was stronger relative to that observed in boys. Regarding underlying processes, trait resilience moderated the effect of bullying victimization on social anxiety only in girls. Further assessment of the latent interaction effects indicated that the protective effect of trait resilience was stronger for girls experiencing high, relative to low, levels of bullying victimization, and psychological suzhi buffered against the detrimental effects of bullying on children’s social anxiety. Most notably, unlike the moderating effect of resilience, the buffering effect of psychological suzhi against social anxiety was most prominent when bullying victimization was low. Findings underscore the importance of enhancing trait resilience and psychological suzhi in interventions designed to reduce children’s social anxiety. |
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| Keywords: | Bullying victimization Social anxiety Trait resilience |
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