Many things play a role in the tendency to engage in cyberbullying. This study aimed to identify the determinant factors of the tendency to engage in cyberbullying by adolescents in Java. A sample of 1038 teenagers aged between 12 and 18 who used internet-connected electronic information and technology equipment. The measuring instruments used in this study included a cyberbullying tendency scale, an empathy scale, a self-esteem scale, a friendship quality scale, and an emotion regulation scale. Path analysis was used to process the data. The data showed that self-esteem served as a predictor of cyberbullying tendency whose relationship was negative only when it was mediated by emotion regulation. Friendship quality was a predictor of cyberbullying tendency both in a direct fashion and mediated by empathy.
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This research aimed to examine the role of moral identity and moral disengagement on antisocial behavior in male adolescents. It was hypothesized that moral identity and moral disengagement would contribute to antisocial behavior; lower moral identity and higher moral disengagement would lead to higher antisocial behavior, and vice versa. Moral Identity Scale, Moral Disengagement Scale, and Antisocial Behavior Scale were used to measure students' moral identity, moral disengagement, and antisocial behavior, respectively. Participants were 121 male students from two high schools in Yogyakarta City selected using a convenience sampling technique. The result showed that, as expected, moral identity and moral disengagement contributed significantly to antisocial behavior
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