ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1607367
This article is part of the Research TopicThe influence of Internet and technology on mental health and psychological adjustment of young adultsView all 11 articles
The Relationship Between Harsh Parenting, Shyness and Cyber Victimization: Based on The Cross-Lagged Panel Model and The Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of Educational Science, Anhui Normal University, Anhui Wuhu 241000, China, Wuhu, China
- 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China, Beijing, China
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Objective: To examine the longitudinal associations between harsh parenting, shyness, and cyber victimization.The present study hypothesized that shyness mediated harsh parenting and cyber victimization. Methods: Eight hundred and twenty-eight first-year middle school students voluntarily completed three rounds of questionnaires investigating harsh parenting, shyness, and cyber victimization at eight-month intervals. CLPM and RI-CLPM were conducted using SPSS 26.0 and Mplus 8.3. Results: Shyness was a significant predictor of cyber victimization and harsh parenting had a significant prospective effect on cyber victimization. Shyness mediated longitudinally between harsh parenting and cyber victimization. Conclusions: In CLPM, T1 and T2 harsh parenting significantly and positively predicted T3 cyber victimization, with shyness serving as a mediator in the longitudinal relationship between harsh parenting and cyber victimization. In RI-CLPM, at the within-individual level, T1 harsh parenting significantly and positively predicted T2 cyber victimization, T2 shyness mediated the relationship between T1 harsh parenting and T3 cyber victimization. This study deepens our understanding of the dynamic relationship among harsh parenting, shyness, and cyber victimization, providing robust empirical evidence and meaningful insights for interventions in adolescent cyber victimization.
Keywords: harsh parenting, shyness, Cyber victimization, CLPM, RI-CLPM
Received: 07 Apr 2025; Accepted: 12 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Zhao, Xin and Sang. 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: Tao Xin, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China, Beijing, China
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