Adolescents’ Cyberbullying And Depression

Nowadays science technology develops in an unprecedentedly blowout way. In 2015, a journal company published a list of "top buzzwords of 2015" including "instant online celebrities", "Internet Plus" and other words relating to Internet, which shows that people’s living, work, education and every aspects of life are linking closely with the Internet. On 23 July,2015, CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) released The 36th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China in Beijing, declaring that by June, domestic internet penetration has reached 48.8% with a total of 668 million Netizens. Statistics from GMW showed that Netizens under 16 years old (about 100-120 million people), who were influenced by Internet since born, take up 16%-20% of the whole number. Hence it can be concluded that teenagers are most affected by the Internet.Research in other countries which take pressure, peer relationship, cyber-society support, prosocial values, interpersonal relationship, self-esteem, mind-control etc. as mediators and moderators has proved that cyberbullying has a positive correlation with depression. Based on the previous research, the study believes rumination and hope have great influence on depression. Hence there are two hypothesis:1. Cyberbullying leads to rumination, which further leads to depression. Here rumination is a mediator;2. Hope could inhibit depression which caused by cyberbullying. Here hope is a moderator.To verify the above hypothesis, the study chooses two secondary schools’students in Zhengzhou as the subject, collects information about their use of internet, depression, rumination and hope through questionnaires. The aim is to find out the mechanics of the emergence of depression.In the study,850 questionnaires are handed out, in which 759 pieces are returned (RR 89.29%). The subject consists of half male and half female, half middle school students and the other half high school ones. The analysis of the results contains two main steps:l)Mediating effects of rumination and contains demographic questionnaire, cyberbullying questionnaire, Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) and Events related to the questionnaire, using SPSS 17.0 and Hayes (2012) the preparation of SPSS macrodefmition (http://www.afhayes.com) of the data into the analysis, which SPSS macrodefmition mainly uses deviation correction of percentile Bootstrap method analysis of the mediating effect of rumination. The results showed that the relationship between the cyberbullying and the depression was mediated by the rumination, the indirect effect value was 0.075, the mediating effect was significant, and the mediating effect was 28.74%.2). To examine the moderating effect of hope in the relationship between the cyberbullying, the rumination and the depression. It was found that the rumination and depression was significantly affected by the product of bullying and hope, which indicated that hope was expected to play a moderating role in the prediction of the rumination and depression of the cyberbullying. Hope is regulating the two relations at the same time- cyberbullying indirect effect on rumination and cyberbullying direct effects on depression.At the end, the paper explains the inter-function between theory and practice, analyzes the limit of the research and gives inspiration about further study.