Loneliness is a distressing emotional state that motivates individuals to renew and maintain
social contact. It has been suggested that lonely individuals suffer from a cognitive bias …

Depressive disorders are often accompanied by severe and pervasive impairments in social
functioning, surpassing those experienced by individuals with other chronic medical …

The nature of the relation between victimization of bullying and social information
processing is unclear. The prevention hypothesis predicts that victims focus more on …

The use of Information and Communication Technologies is clearly widespread among
adolescents from a young age. Although it poses a significant contribution at the academic …

Research has found that self-esteem is negatively associated with problematic smartphone
use (PSU). However, the internal mechanisms underlying that relationship need further …

We tested how cynicism emerges and what maintains it. Cynicism is the tendency to believe
that people are morally bankrupt and behave treacherously to maximize self-interest …

As a serious and complex social phenomenon, cyberbullying is receiving more and more
attention around the world (Zhu et al., 2021). In the present study, we define cyberbullying …

Young people are spending increasing amounts of time using digital technology and, as
such, are at great risk of being involved in cyber bullying as a victim, bully, or bully/victim …

Developing bullying interventions and testing their success depends on the valid and
reliable measurement of peer victimization. The objective of this study was to examine the …

This article introduces and applies an integrative model of cyberharassment victimization.
The model combines routine activity theory (RAT), the general theory of crime (GTC), and …