While prior research has well-documented the detrimental effect of cyberbullying victimization on health and well-being among children and adolescents, less is known about whether the same adverse pattern can be observed among adults. Moreover, it is unclear about what psychosocial resources might moderate this association. The present study uses a nationally representative cross-sectional survey—2014 Canadian General Social Survey (N = 17,548)—to examine three research questions. First, is cyberbullying victimization associated with adults’ self-rated health, mental health, and life satisfaction? Second, how does religiosity—religious service attendance and religious beliefs—moderate this association? Third, do any observed patterns further differ for men and women? Through a series of logistic and ordinary least squares regression models, the results show that adults who experienced cyberbullying victimization in the past 5 years are more likely to report poor self-rated health and mental health compared to those who did not experience cyberbullying victimization in the past 5 years. Likewise, cyberbullying victimization is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction. In addition, the adverse associations of cyberbullying victimization in the past 5 years with self-rated health and life satisfaction are weaker among those who attended religious service at least once a week in the past twelve months. A similar pattern is observed for the buffering effect of viewing religious beliefs as very important in the adverse association of cyberbullying victimization in the past 5 years with self-rated life satisfaction. There is also evidence suggesting the gendered buffering effect of the importance of religious beliefs in the association between cyberbullying victimization and self-rated health. This study makes important empirical and theoretical contributions to the growing field of research on the association between cyberbullying victimization and health and well-being and to our understanding of how religion matters to individuals dealing with stressful experiences.

虽然之前的研究已经充分证明了网络欺凌受害对儿童和青少年健康和福祉的不利影响，但对于是否可以在成年人中观察到同样的不利模式知之甚少。此外，尚不清楚哪些社会心理资源可能会缓和这种关联。本研究采用具有全国代表性的横断面调查——2014 年加拿大综合社会调查（N= 17,548)——检查三个研究问题。首先，网络欺凌受害与成年人的自评健康、心理健康和生活满意度有关吗？其次，宗教信仰——宗教服务出席率和宗教信仰——如何调节这种联系？第三，观察到的男性和女性模式是否进一步不同？通过一系列逻辑和普通最小二乘回归模型，结果显示在过去 5 年中经历过网络欺凌受害的成年人与过去 5 年未经历过网络欺凌受害的成年人相比，自评健康和心理健康状况较差的可能性更大过去 5 年。同样，网络欺凌受害也与较低的生活满意度有关。此外，在过去 12 个月每周至少参加一次宗教仪式的人中，过去 5 年网络欺凌受害与自评健康和生活满意度的不良关联较弱。在过去 5 年的网络欺凌受害与自评生活满意度的不良关联中，将宗教信仰视为非常重要的缓冲效应也观察到了类似的模式。还有证据表明，宗教信仰在网络欺凌受害与自评健康之间的关联中的重要性具有性别缓冲作用。