Time perspective has been recognized as an important psychological dimension with a pervasive and powerful influence on human behavior. To the authors’ knowledge, no studies have focused on the relationship between time perspective and cyberbullying behavior. The first aim of this research is to fill this gap by investigating the relationship between different time perspectives and both cyberbullying and cybervictimization among 6th to 8th grade students. The second objective was to investigate the relationship between time perspective, cyberbullying behaviors, peer problems, and the quality of relationship with teachers. A sample consisting of 403 students aged between 11 and 14 years from Italian middle schools (56% females, mean age = 12.2 years) were recruited. Participants filled in a self‐report questionnaire measuring cyberbullying and cybervictimization as well as the Time Perspective questionnaire. The analyses showed the presence of significant correlations between time perspective and both cyberbullying and cybervictimization. In particular, cybervictimization showed a quite large positive correlation with a past‐negative orientation and a negative correlation with past‐positive orientation. Instead, the involvement in active cyberbullying was positively correlated with a past‐negative orientation and negatively correlated with future orientation. The findings advance the understanding of psychological factors influencing cyberbullying during early adolescence and suggest the importance of past‐positive and past‐negative orientations in accounting for both active cyberbullying and cybervictimization. As expected, future orientation appeared to represent a protective factor against involvement in cyberbullying behaviors.

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青少年期的网络欺凌和网络受害：时间观点重要吗？

时间观点已被认为是一个重要的心理维度，对人类行为具有广泛而强大的影响。据作者所知，没有研究集中在时间观点与网络欺凌行为之间的关系。这项研究的首要目的是通过调查6至8年级学生不同时间观点与网络欺凌和网络受害之间的关系来填补这一空白。第二个目标是研究时间观点，网络欺凌行为，同伴问题和与教师的关系质量之间的关系。招募了一个样本，其中包括来自意大利中学的403名年龄在11至14岁之间的学生（56％的女性，平均年龄= 12.2岁）。参与者填写了一份自我报告调查表，用于衡量网络欺凌和网络受害情况，以及时间观点调查表。分析表明，时间观点与网络欺凌和网络受害之间存在显着的相关性。尤其是，网络受害与过去的负向有很大的正相关，与过去的正向有负的相关。相反，参与积极的网络欺凌与过去的消极取向呈正相关，与未来的消极取向呈负相关。这些发现促进了对影响青春期早期网络欺凌的心理因素的理解，并暗示了过去积极和过去消极取向在应对积极网络欺凌和网络受害中的重要性。不出所料，未来的发展方向似乎代表了防止参与网络欺凌行为的保护因素。