The Impact of Bullying Victimization on Short Video Addiction in Adolescents: The Role of Emotional Distress and Neural Mechanisms
Yao Q, Zhu W, Gao Y, Wang J, Liu C, Zhao G, Wang Q
Addiction biology · 11 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Government
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City
- Government
- Philosophy and Social Science Research Project of Universities in Anhui Province
- Government
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin Municipality
- Government
- Open Research Fund of the Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Science of Anhui Province on Adolescent Mental Health and Crisis Intelligence Intervention
- University or hospital
- Open Fund of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Grants
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (32000786); Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (23JCYBJC00910)
Based on 6 listed funder(s) and full-text disclosure statement.
Publication
- Published
- 2025-04-01 · Addict Biol · vol. 30 · issue 4 · p. e70038
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 14 citations · more than 100% of similar papers · 26.6× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 55 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Child Development and Digital Technology
- Keywords
- bullying victimization, short video addiction, adolescents, emotional distress, negative affect, mediation, inferior temporal gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, spontaneous brain activity, representational similarity analysis, junior high school students, university students
- MeSH
- brain, parahippocampal gyrus, prefrontal cortex, temporal lobe, humans, magnetic resonance imaging, students, adolescent, crime victims, female, male, young adult, bullying, psychological distress, internet addiction disorder
7 authors
From CN
- Qiong YaoHefei Normal University
- Wenwei ZhuSouth China Normal University
- Yuanyuan GaoTianjin Normal University
- Jinlian WangTianjin Normal University
- Chang LiuTianjin Normal University
- Guang Wei Zhao · correspondingTianjin Normal University
Abstract
Short-video addiction (SVA) has become a growing concern among adolescents. Bullying victimization (BV) is considered a significant factor contributing to it, yet its relationship with SVA remains underexplored. This study investigated the role of BV in SVA, examining developmental and psychological pathways across middle school students (MSS; n = 1269), college students (CS; n = 1615) and a replicated college sample (RCS; n = 112). Descriptive statistics revealed significant correlations between SVA and BV, including subdimensions such as verbal, physical and relational bullying, as well as negative affect (NA). Mediation analyses showed that NA partially mediated the relationship between BV and SVA across both MSS and CS groups, although mediation effects were absent in addicted subgroups, highlighting differing psychological pathways between addicted and nonaddicted populations. Neuroimaging analyses in the RCS sample identified spontaneous functional brain activity linked to SVA in the inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) and parahippocampal gyrus (PHG), with intersubject representational similarity analyses (IS-RSA) further associating PHG and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) activity patterns with intersubject variations in SVA. These findings underscore bullying victimization as a critical predictor of short video addiction, mediated by NA in nonaddicted groups, and illuminate spontaneous brain activity patterns associated with addiction.
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