The aim of this study is to verify the mediating effects of the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy in the relationship between the adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment and cyberviolence. The correlations between the three main variable...
The aim of this study is to verify the mediating effects of the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy in the relationship between the adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment and cyberviolence. The correlations between the three main variables of adolescent aged 12 to 16 year-old students (33 males, 24 females) were examined in this analysis. In addition, this study explored how the adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment influences the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy and cyberviolence, how the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy influences the cyberviolence. Moreover, it was confirmed whether the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy mediating role in the relationship between their perceived parent-child attachment and cyberviolence.
To research about this study, the following measures were used. First, the adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment was measured by using only the parental attachment scale among ‘Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment Revised-Version (IPPA-R)’ developed by Armsden and Greenberg (1987) and translated into Korean by Ok Jeong (1998). Next, the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy was measured by using ‘Child/Adolescent Meta-Emotion Interview (CMEI)’ developed by Katz and Windecker-Nelson (2002) and translated into Korean by Nahm and Song (2013), which was developed specially to measure child and adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy (Katz & Windecker-Nelson, 2002). The interview was coded accordingly to Nahm and Song(2013)’s translated manual, which was based on the coding system created by Katz and Windecker-Nelson (2004). Finally, the cyberviolence was measured by using only the cyberviolence perpetrator scale among ‘Cyberbullying scale’ of Na Hye Yeon’s (2015) research. It can be applied to cyberviolence using applications such as Kakao Talk, Facebook, Kakao Story, and Instagram, which were not applied to the existing cyberviolence scale.
The study’s findings are summarized as follows. First, this study examined the correlations between the adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment, the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy and cyberviolence. To begin with, when examining the relation between the adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment and the cyberviolence, there were negative correlations between the parent-child attachment and cyberviolence. Next, when examining the relation between the adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment and adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy, there was a positive correlation between the parent-child attachment and sub-factors of the adolescent’s emotional regulation, emotional remediation in their Meta-Emotion philosophy. Finally, when examining the relation between the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy and the cyberviolence, there were negative correlations between the emotion regulation in adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy and cyberviolence.
Second, this study examined the effects between the three variables of adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment, the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy and cyberviolence. To begin with, when examining the effect of the parent-child attachment on cyberviolence, the greater the level of the sense of alienation among the parent-child attachment, the greater the level of the cyberviolence. Next, when examining the effect of the parent-child attachment on the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy, the parent-child attachment did not directly influence the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy. Finally, when examining the effect of the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy on cyberviolence, the emotional awareness/understanding and emotional regulation in the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy influenced cyberviolence. Specifically, the greater the level of the emotional awareness/understanding, the greater the level of the cyberviolence, while the greater the level of the emotional regulation, the lower the level of the cyberviolence.
Third, this study examined whether the adolescents’ Meta-Emotion philosophy the mediating role in the relationship between the adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment and cyberviolence. As a result, the adolescent’s emotional regulation in their Meta-Emotion philosophy a partial mediating role in the relationship between the sense of alienation among the parent-child attachment and cyberviolence. In other words, it shows that the more adolescents felt less alienated from their parents, the lower the level of the cyberviolence, and the more adolescents felt a sense of belonging to their parents, the lower the level of the cyberviolence by influencing their own negative emotional regulation levels.
Based on these findings, the implications of this study are follows. First, This study measures the adolescent’s perceived parent-child attachment, Meta-Emotion philosophy and cyberviolence. the relationship between the parent-child attachment that can solidify psychological resources and important emotions throughout their lives, and cyberviolence were examined. In addition, it was confirmed that adolescent’s Meta-Emotion philosophy a partial mediating role in the relationship betweenthe parent-child attachment and cyberviolence. Through this, the direct effect of the sense of alienation in the parent-child attachment affecting cyberviolence was confirmed, and the indirect effect of the sense of alienation in the parent-child attachment affecting cyberviolence by affecting emotional regulation among adolescent’s Meta-Emotion philosophy was confirmed. These results carries significance in providing information that it is important to check whether or not they feel alienated from their most basic home environment when trying to intervene and prevent cyberviolence of adolescents.
Second, In a time when the severity of cyberviolence is increasing day by day due to the smartphone penetration rate of over 90% and the increased cyber life due to the recent COVID-19, we looked at middle school students who are most closely related to cyberviolence. The result that the greater the level of the emotional regulation, the lower the level of the cyberviolence, basically provides information that it is necessary to introduce a program to help improve emotional regulation ability as well as preventive education when cyberviolence prevention programs. These results carries significance in providing information.
Finally, In this study, an interview was conducted for ‘Child/Adolescent Meta-Emotion Interview (CMEI)’ based on the manual developed by Katz and Windecker-Nelson (2002), rather than a questionnaire to measure the Meta-Emotion philosophy of adolescents. By conducting these interviews and collecting data, We were able to comprehensively examine the emotional experiences of adolescents. Also, it was possible to reduce fragmentary or consistent responses to how they felt and thought about anger and sadness, which were negative emotions, and to derive more natural and richer responses about their beliefs or values during the interview process with the researcher. In addition, it carries significance in that this study secured objectivity and validity of evaluation by analyzing them through a repeatedly verified coding system.