The Relationship Between Bullying an Experiences and Social Anxiety of College Students: Self-esteem as a Mediating Variable

Abstract

Violence in schools is a global problem and is common to be seen in our daily lives. People involved in bullying are often psychologically and physically affected to varying degrees. In college students, bullying is often overlooked because bullying on campus always occurs by the way of cyberbullying or verbal, resulting in a small amount of empirical research. In this research, we will investigate the frequency of college students’ involvement in bullying, whether it affects social anxiety levels, and do statistics by testing the mediating role of self-esteem levels between social anxiety level and bullying frequency. Through the questionnaire method in quantitative research, the results of this study manifested that the frequency of bullying on campus is positively related to college students’ social anxiety level. With self-esteem level playing a partial mediating role, the results of this study illustrated that gender is also correlated with the frequency of involvement in school violence, social anxiety level, and self-esteem level.