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Faculty Mentor
Xiaoye Xu
Creation Date
5-2025
Description
Bullying victimization and school climate have been found to predict adolescents' depression in western countries. However, it was unknown how these factors may affect adolescents in other countries such as Chinese rural adolescents. We aimed to examine whether bullying victimization and school climate interacted to predict Chinese rural adolescents' depression. Participants were 705 adolescentes (60.7% female, M = 16.7, SD = 0.996, age range: 11-20 years), and they were recruited from a boarding school in rural China. Adolescents reported on school climate, depression and bullying victimization. Results stated that bullying victimization positively predicted adolescents’ depression and the prediction was stronger when school climate was better as compared to a more negative school climate. Therefore, depending on the social, economic or environmental context that the adolescent is in, it could make them more vulnerable to the impact that bullying victimization and school climate create.
Keywords
Bullying, Schools, adolescents, depression, China, Psychology