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      Emotional warmth and cyberbullying perpetration attitudes in college students: Mediation of trait gratitude and empathy

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          Based on Social Learning Theory and the General Aggression Model, this study aims to explore the relationship between parental emotional warmth and the cyberbullying perpetration attitudes of college students and the mediating roles of trait gratitude and empathy. Using the stratified cluster random sampling method, 1198 college students (716 boys and 482 girls with an average age of 20.44 years) were tested using the subscale of the Parenting Styles Instrument, the Basic Empathy Scale, the Gratitude Questionnaire-6, and the Cyberbullying Attitude Questionnaire. Results: Emotional warmth, trait gratitude, cognitive empathy, and affective empathy all demonstrated significantly positive relationships with each other ( rs from .175 to .403, ps < 0.01) and negative correlations with cyberbullying perpetration attitudes ( rs from -.137 to -.306, ps < 0.01). Emotional warmth can exert an impact on cyberbullying perpetration attitudes through three fully mediating paths: the mediating roles of trait gratitude (41.91% of the total effect), cognitive empathy (14.5% of the total effect), and the chain mediating roles of trait gratitude–cognitive empathy (19.5% of the total effect). The results may have important implications for future studies to develop effective interventions for cyberbullying.

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                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                14 July 2020
                2020
                : 15
                : 7
                : e0235477
                Affiliations
                [1 ] School of Marxism, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, Liaoning Province, China
                [2 ] School of Business Administration, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, Liaoning Province, China
                [3 ] Organization Department of Party Committee, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, Liaoning Province, China
                University of La Rioja, SPAIN
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-8972
                Article
                PONE-D-20-00732
                10.1371/journal.pone.0235477
                7360375
                32663843
                eaef214b-8c89-4a7e-aac2-42625940076c
                © 2020 Chen et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 9 January 2020
                : 16 June 2020
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                Figures: 2, Tables: 2, Pages: 14
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100010245, Social Science Foundation of Liaoning Province;
                Award ID: L18WSZ011
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004767, University of Science and Technology Liaoning;
                Award ID: 601011507-33
                Award Recipient :
                This research was supported by General Program of General Higher Education Undergraduate Teaching Reform Research Project of Liaoning Province; Liaoning Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science Planning Foundation (L18WSZ011); University of Science and Technology Liaoning Talent Project Grants (601011507-33) awarded to Liang Chen.
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