Cyberbullying includes actions such as derogatory actions, displaying harassing comments, hacking a user account, disclosing personal information of others without their consent, harassing and sending threatening messages.. The aim of this study is to determine the mediating role of family functioning in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and cyberbullying among adolescents. This research is applied and falls into the category of descriptive and correlational studies. Correlational research is one of the descriptive (non-experimental) research methods that examines the relationship between variables based on the research objectives. The statistical population in this study, considering the objectives, includes all 12 to 18-year-old students in Yazd city. In this study, a cluster-random sampling method was used. Considering that the cluster-random sampling method was used, With the cooperation of Yazd Education, four districts were randomly selected from 10 districts, and four schools were randomly selected from each district, and finally 16 schools were selected, and finally, 24 students were randomly selected from each school in the age range of the research. The data collection tools in this study were the Cyberbullying Victimization and Perpetration Questionnaire (CBVEQ)by Antoniadou, N., Kokkinos, C.M., & Markos, A (2016), Early Maladaptive Schemas Questionnaire, and Family Functioning Questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using confirmatory factor analysis method and Pearson correlation coefficient, and the Sobel test was used with the help of smartpls and spss software. The results of this study showed that family functioning mediates the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and cyberbullying among adolescents significantly. So that a harmonious family with independent and efficient subsystems can correct and adjust unhealthy schemas and ultimately reduce anti-social behaviors such as cyber bullying.
soleymani khashab, A., & ehramposh, M. (2025). the mediating role of family functioning in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and cyberbullying among adolescents. The Women and Families Cultural-Educational, (), -.
MLA
abbasali soleymani khashab; mahsa ehramposh. "the mediating role of family functioning in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and cyberbullying among adolescents", The Women and Families Cultural-Educational, , , 2025, -.
HARVARD
soleymani khashab, A., ehramposh, M. (2025). 'the mediating role of family functioning in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and cyberbullying among adolescents', The Women and Families Cultural-Educational, (), pp. -.
VANCOUVER
soleymani khashab, A., ehramposh, M. the mediating role of family functioning in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and cyberbullying among adolescents. The Women and Families Cultural-Educational, 2025; (): -.
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