Developing a structural model of cyber victimization based on internet addiction and perceived social support with the mediating role of personality traits

Cyber ​​Victimization is one of the new harms of today's society. The aim of the present study was to develop a structural model of cyberbullying victimization based on perceived social support and Internet addiction with the mediating role of personality traits.
 

 The statistical population of this research included the second-high school female students of Khwansar city, 170 of whom were identified using random cluster sampling, and the data collection tool was 4 standard questionnaires of cyber victimization by Antoniado et al. (2016), Internet addiction by Young (1998), Zeman et al.'s perceived social support (1998) and Costa and McCrae's (1985) short form of personality traits.

Findings using AMOS software showed that Internet addiction has a significant and inverse relationship with responsibility and a significant and direct relationship with psychoticism. Perceived social support also has a significant direct relationship with responsibility and extroversion. The subscale of neuroticism has a direct and significant relationship with cyber victimization, and finally, the factor of responsibility and extroversion as mediating factors with Internet addiction and social support have a significant relationship with cyber victimization, and the indirect relationship of other subscales was not significant.

Therefore, it can be concluded that when people who become cyber victims develop an addiction to the Internet, their responsibility decreases and their neuroticism increases. The greater their social support, the greater their responsibility and extraversion. Also, neurotic people are more likely to become cyber victims. Finally, it can be concluded that the factors of responsibility and extraversion indirectly affect cyber victimization through Internet addiction and social support.