ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Social Pediatrics
This article is part of the Research TopicMental health and wellbeing of childrenView all 15 articles
How Does School Bullying Influence Adolescent Social Adaptation? A Serial Mediation Model of School Connectedness and Self-Disclosure
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of Information Management, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
- 2College of Education and Sports Sciences, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China
Select one of your emails
You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers:
Notify me on publication
Please enter your email address:
If you already have an account, please login
You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here
School bullying has become an important social problem among adolescents, it can influence the growth of individual, yet understanding of the impacts of school bullying is limited. The present study determined to investigate whether and how school bullying can influence adolescent social adaptation. A sample of 434 Chinese adolescents (56.9% females), with an average age of 13.07 years (SD=0.93), participated the survey. Structural equation modeling was used to assess the hypothesized model. The present study combined self-disclosure and school connectedness into a serial mediation model, highlighting the role of individual and environmental factors in the outcomes of school bullying. Both limitations and implications are discussed in the end.
Keywords: Adolescent, school bullying, school connectedness, self-disclosure, social adaptation
Received: 15 Nov 2025; Accepted: 03 Feb 2026.
Copyright: © 2026 Jin, Wang, Xiang, Wang, Zhang, Li and Gan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Xiong Gan
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.