Psychology: Techniques and Application ›› 2025, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (3): 129-146.

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The Relationship Between Self-esteem and Cyber Aggression: The Evidence from Meta-analysis

  

  • Received:2024-12-30 Accepted:2024-12-30 Online:2025-03-17 Published:2025-03-17

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This meta-analysis was conducted to explore the strength and moderators of the the relationship between self-esteem and cyber aggression because the inconsistent results of previous studies. By searching Chinese and English databases, 85 cases and 86 independent effect sizes together with 65048 participants which met the inclusion criteria of meta-analysis were selected. Heterogeneity test indicated that random effects model was appropriate for the study. Main-effect test findings demonstrated that self-esteem was significantly associated with cyber aggression. Further moderation analysis revealed that the association between self-esteem and cyber aggression was moderated by measurement tools of self-esteem and the type of culture background, sample size, but not by participants’ age, gender, school stages, measurement tools of cyber aggression, and the type of publication. The result suggests that improving self-esteem can help reduce the occurrence of cyber aggression. In the future, longitudinal tracking can be conducted to explorethe mechanism and causal relationship of self-esteem affecting cyber aggression.

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  • B849:C91
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