scholarly journals Cyberbullying Victimization and Adolescent Depression: The Mediating Role of Psychological Security and the Moderating Role of Growth Mindset

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 4368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gengfeng Niu ◽  
Jing He ◽  
Shanyan Lin ◽  
Xiaojun Sun ◽  
Claudio Longobardi
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Epidemiologic Studies ◽  
Growth Mindset ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Cyberbullying Victimization ◽  
Moderating Role

The objective of this study was to examine the mechanisms (the mediating role of psychological security and the moderating role of growth mindset) underlying the association between cyberbullying victimization and depression among adolescents. A sample of 755 adolescents (Mage = 13.35 ± 1.02; 373 boys) was recruited from two junior high schools, and the participants were asked to voluntarily complete a set of measures, including the cyberbullying victimization subscale in the Chinese version of the Cyberbullying Inventory, the Chinese version of the Security Questionnaire, the Chinese version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, and the Growth Mindset Inventory. The results indicated that: (1) cyberbullying victimization was positively associated with depression through the mediating effect of psychological security and (2) both the direct association between cyberbullying victimization and depression and the indirect association through the mediating effect of psychological security were moderated by growth mindset. Specifically, growth mindset could significantly alleviate the adverse effects of cyberbullying victimization on psychological security and on depression. These findings not only shed light on the mechanisms linking cyberbullying victimization to depression among adolescents, but also provide an empirical basis for formulating prevention and/or intervention programs aimed at reducing depression levels and the negative influences of cyberbullying victimization among adolescents.

Body dissatisfaction and psychological distress in adolescents: Is self-esteem a mediator?

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1563-1569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie-Pier Duchesne ◽  
Jacinthe Dion ◽  
Daniel Lalande ◽  
Catherine Bégin ◽  
Claudie Émond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Epidemiologic Studies ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression

This brief report tests the mediating effect of self-esteem in the relationship between body dissatisfaction and symptoms of depression and anxiety. A sample of 409 adolescents (females = 58.4%) aged between 14 and 18 years completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Contour Drawing Rating Scale, the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Overall, results for the indirect effects analysis were significant for both anxiety and depression, which confirmed the mediating role of self-esteem. Thus, a negative perception of one’s body image has the effect of lowering self-esteem, which in turn increases psychological distress.

Mediating Effect of WhatsApp Addiction Between Social Loneliness and Preference for Online Social Interaction: A Cross-cultural Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 097215092110556
Author(s):  
Komal Nagar ◽  
Gurmeet Singh ◽  
Rabinder Singh
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Online Social Interaction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Social Loneliness

The present study aims to explore the relationship between social loneliness and online interaction through WhatsApp addiction among a sample of Indian and Fijian respondents. Based on the responses of 202 Indian and 73 Fijian respondents, the present research study validated the mediating role of WhatsApp addiction, revealing that social loneliness increased the possibility of preferring to interact online through increased WhatsApp addiction. The empirical results showed that the underlying mechanism of social loneliness might indirectly influence consumers’ preference for online social interaction (POSI). The study further assessed the moderating role of culture in the association between social loneliness and POSI. Findings of the moderated mediation analysis demonstrated that, the association between loneliness and preference to socialize online differed, based on the identified cultural differences between Indian and Fijian groups.

The impact of perceived brand interactivity on customer purchases. The mediating role of perceived brand fairness and the moderating role of brand involvement

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gligor ◽  
Sıddık Bozkurt
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Brand Involvement ◽  
Customer Purchases ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

Purpose This study aims to investigate the effect of perceived brand interactivity on customer purchases along with the mediating effect of perceived brand fairness. To increase the explanatory power of the model, this study also examines the moderating role of brand involvement. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was conducted to measure the constructs of interest. The direct, indirect (mediation) and conditional (moderation) effects were evaluated using linear regression, PROCESS Model 4 and PROCESS Model 59, respectively. Further, the Johnson Neyman (also called floodlight analysis) technique was used to probe the interaction terms. Findings The study results indicate that perceived brand interactivity directly and indirectly (via perceived brand fairness) impact customer purchases. The results also reveal that the positive impact of perceived brand interactivity on perceived brand fairness is greater when brand involvement is lower. In the same vein, the positive impact of perceived brand fairness on customer purchases is greater when brand involvement is lower. However, brand involvement does not moderate the impact of perceived brand involvement on customer purchases. Originality/value This study examines the effect of perceived brand interactivity on customer purchases (as a customer engagement behavior) while accounting for the mediating role of perceived brand fairness and the moderating role of brand involvement. The results provide noteworthy theoretical and managerial implications.

scholarly journals Perceived Organizational Injustice, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intention: A Study of MNCs in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 1047-1065
Author(s):  
Daisy Mui Hung Kee ◽  
Kuok Shiong Chung
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Organizational Injustice

The paper intends to examine the relationship between perceived organizational injustice, organizational commitment, and turnover intention. Besides, the paper investigates the mediating role of job satisfaction on the relationship between organizational injustice, organizational commitment, and turnover intention. The presence of gender as a moderating role is also tested. Testing hypotheses on 203 MNCs employees, the paper finds that distributive and interactional injustice are associated with organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and higher turnover intention. Procedural injustice has a direct negative influence on job satisfaction. Job satisfaction has a mediating effect on the relationship between organizational injustice, organizational commitment, and turnover intention. Gender is found to have a moderating effect on the relationship between organizational injustice and turnover intention. This study's findings serve as guidelines to help managers better understand organizational behaviors, specifically on how to minimize employee turnover, improve job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and make better decisions in managing the perception of distributive and interactional injustice when dealing with their employees.

Champions need an iron will: How employees use their dispositional self-control to overcome workplace incivility

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Dirk De Clercq ◽  
Imanol Belausteguigoitia
Keyword(s):  
Critical Factor ◽  
Workplace Incivility ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Control Data ◽  
Alternative Employment ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Moderating Role

Abstract This paper investigates how employees' experience of workplace incivility may steer them away from idea championing, with a special focus on the mediating role of their desire to quit their jobs and the moderating role of their dispositional self-control. Data collected from employees who work in a large retail organization reveal that an important reason that exposure to rude workplace behaviors reduces employees' propensity to champion innovative ideas is that they make concrete plans to leave. This mediating effect is mitigated when employees are equipped with high levels of self-control though. For organizations, this study accordingly pinpoints desires to seek alternative employment as a critical factor by which irritations about resource-draining incivility may escalate into a reluctance to add to organizational effectiveness through dedicated championing efforts. It also indicates how this escalation can be avoided, namely, by ensuring employees have access to pertinent personal resources.

scholarly journals ON THE PATH TOWARDS OPEN INNOVATION: ASSESSING ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE ORIENTED LEADERSHIP WITH KNOWLEDGE CAPABILITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (02) ◽  
pp. 166-178
Author(s):  
Arslan Najeeb Khan ◽  
Abeera Matloob ◽  
Muhammad Shahid Tufail
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Knowledge Process ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
Moderating Role

This paper aims to examine the outcomes of the knowledge-oriented leadership on the organization’s open innovation through the mediating effect of the Knowledge Process Capability and Knowledge Infrastructure Capability and moderating role of Intellectual Capital. Data collection was done from the manufacturing sector through convenient sampling. The sample size was 105 respondents. The questionnaire was used and SEM is applied for the data analysis. The study concluded that there is a direct optimistic relation between KOL and OOI. Mediating role of KPC and KIC between KOL and OOI was found significant. Although the moderating results shows that by adding the intellectual capital as the moderator it increases the Organization’s KPC and KIC and in return organizations will become capable for increasing its open innovation’s targets. This study’s finding can be helpful for employers in adopting better open innovation’s trends with providing significant support for future investigation and research in related field.

Conscientiousness and perceived physical symptoms: Mediating effect of life events stress and moderating role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia

2021 ◽  
pp. 135910532110082
Author(s):  
Yaqi Hu ◽  
Zhenhong Wang ◽  
Wei Lü
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Physiological Data ◽  
Sinus Arrhythmia ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

This study investigated the possible psychophysiological links between conscientiousness and perceived physical symptoms by examining the mediating role of life events stress and the moderating role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). Participants participated in the collection of questionnaire data and physiological data ( N = 396). Results showed life events stress mediated the association between conscientiousness and perceived physical symptoms, and the indirect effect was only significant among individuals with lower resting RSA. Findings indicate that low resting RSA as a risk-amplifying physiological marker may magnify the relationship that low conscientiousness affects physical symptoms by increasing life events stress.

scholarly journals The Mediating Effect of Self-Control on Depression and Tendencies of Eating Disorders in Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Juan Li ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Meng Qi ◽  
Tian-He Song ◽  
Jing-Xu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Eating Attitudes ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Impulse System ◽  
Eat 26 ◽  
And Control

Self-control is very important for the adaptation among adolescents. It is associated with depression and tendencies of eating disorders. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the two and the mediating role of self-control for adolescents. In total, 1,231 adolescents (11–18 years) participated in this study. Self-control, depression, and tendencies of eating disorders were evaluated using the Dual-Mode of Self-Control Scale (DMSC-S), 11-item Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS-11), and Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26). The correlations among these factors were analyzed using mediating effect models. Girls had higher scores on the both subscales (impulse system and control system) of DMSC-S (P < 0.001). Those between 15–18 years had higher scores on impulse system than those between 11–14 years (P < 0.001). A significant mediating effect (12.8%) of the impulse system was observed between depression and tendencies of eating disorders in adolescents.

Effects of union commitment on job performance in China

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenyuan Huang ◽  
Chuqin Yuan ◽  
Jie Shen ◽  
Min Li
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Employee Participation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Union Commitment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

PurposeThis study aims to reveal the mechanism through which union commitment influences job performance in China, focusing on the mediating role of employee participation and the moderating role of affective commitment.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, a cross-sectional design was employed to collect data from 596 union members in 33 unionized enterprises in China's Pearl River Delta region.FindingsThe results demonstrate that union commitment is positively related to both employee participation and job performance. Moreover, employee participation mediates the positive relationship between union commitment and job performance. In addition, affective commitment strengthens the relationship between union commitment and employee participation and the mediating effect of employee participation.Practical implicationsThis study indirectly identifies the impact of a union on organizational performance from an individual-level perspective. It also provides new evidence for union construction in order to obtain support from corporate executives in China.Originality/valueThis study makes an important contribution to the literature by proposing and examining the mediating role of employee participation and the moderating role of affective commitment in the underlying mechanism between union commitment and job performance.

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