The Relationship Between Personality Traits, School Climate, Parental Relationship, Anxiety, Depression, Self-esteem, and Cyber-Victimization

Abstract

With the rapid bloom in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the human lives have actually becoming more and more convenient. However, the unpleasant incident cyber-victimization (CV) has also appeared which means people would possibly become the victim of bully cases via the ICTs platforms. The objective of the present study is to examine the association between CV, personality traits, parental relationship and school climate, and some psychological consequences, which includes anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. In the study, questionnaires were disturbed with the year 1–4 undergraduate students studying in one Hong Kong University. There are 196 participants, which aged from 17 to 24 years old (M = 20.16, SD = 1.78) and the participants consisted of 58 male (29.6 %) and 138 female (70.4 %). The findings indicate that extraversion and psychoticism have positive association with CV, while agreeableness and student commitment have negative association with CV. The variables also significantly predict CV. Also, CV has positive relationship with and significantly predicts anxiety and depression. Intervention and preventive strategies would be discussed based in the research findings.