The effects of cyber-ostracism on college students' aggressive behavior: a moderated mediation model

Jingwen Xing; Fengyi Kuo

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1393876

The effects of cyber-ostracism on college students' aggressive behavior: a moderated mediation model

Front Psychiatry. 2024 Apr 18:15:1393876. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1393876. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Jingwen Xing¹, Fengyi Kuo²

Affiliations

¹ School of Primary Education, Shanghai Normal University Tianhua College, Shanghai, China.
² School of Rehabilitation, Jiangsu Vocational College of Medicine, Yancheng, China.

Abstract

Purpose: This study used questionnaire survey to explore the influence of cyber-ostracism on the aggressive behavior of college students. Specifically, this study explored the mediation role of the basic psychological needs satisfaction, and explored the moderating role of self-integrity.

Method: An online questionnaire was designed through a questionnaire website, which was linked and transferred to college students nationwide. 377 valid questionnaires were obtained after excluding invalid questionnaires.

Results: Cyber-ostracism had a significant positive predictive effect on the basic psychological needs satisfaction; Basic psychological needs satisfaction play a mediation role between cyber-ostracism and aggression. Self-integrity moderates the association between basic psychological needs and aggression.

Keywords: aggressive behavior; a moderated mediation model; basic psychological needs; cyber-ostracism; self-integrity.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the 2023 Shanghai Educational Science Research Program, Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (Grant No. C2023232) and Humanities and Social Science Funding Project, The Chinese Ministry of Education (Grant No. 23YJAZH164).