The moderating effect of nature connectedness on cyberbullying victimization and suicide ideation among university students
Objective To explore the moderating effect of nature connectedness on the relation-ship between cyberbullying victimization and suicide ideation among college students,so as to provide ref-erence for intervening college students'cyberbullying and suicide.Methods A stratified cluster of 1 568 college students from 7 universities in Henan Province were randomly selected;a questionnaire survey was conducted using the general situation questionnaire,cyber bullying behavior scale,Beck suicide ideation scale and nature connectedness scale.SPSS 23.0 software was used to enter data and perform statistical a-nalysis,and Pearson correlation analysis was used to investigate the correlation between variables.A mult-ivariate logistic regression analysis model was used to test the moderating effect to explore the main effects and interactions between cyberbullying victmization and nature connectedness on suicide ideation.Results The scores of cyberbullying victimization of college students were significantly different in gender,grade,place of origin,class leader or not(all P<0.05).The report rate of suicide ideation among col-lege students was 7.21%,with statistically significant differences observed across cyberbullying victimiza-tion or not,gender,and grade(all P<0.05).Cyberbullying victimization was positively correlated with suicide ideation(r=0.45,P<0.001),while nature connectedness was negatively correlated with suicide ideation(r=-0.38,P<0.001).Nature connectedness moderated the relationship between cyberbullying victimization and suicide ideation(OR=1.33,95%CI:1.06-1.77,P<0.001).Conclusions Suicide ideation among college students is closely related to cyberbullying victimization and nature connectedness.Family,school,and society can intervene in cyberbullying and suicide ideation among college students by improving their nature connectedness.
University studentCyberbullying victimizationSuicide ideationNature connectedness