Emotion-Focused Coping Worsens Depressive Feelings and Health Complaints in Cyberbullied Children

Table 4

Summary of the hierarchical regression analyses of general coping strategies on depressive feelings (𝑁=243) and health complaints (𝑁=255).

Predicting variables	Depression^1			Health complaints
	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β
Step  1
Victim of cyberbullying	.42	.06	.43***	.33	.06	.33***
Step  2
Victim of cyberbullying	.37	.06	.38***	.29	.06	.29***
Problem-focused general coping	−.29	.06	−.30***	−.18	.06	−.18**
Emotion-focused general coping	.28	.06	.29***	.27	.06	.27***
Step  3
Victim of cyberbullying	.36	.06	.37***	.28	.06	.27***
Problem-focused general coping	−.30	.06	−.30***	−.19	.07	−.19**
Emotion-focused general coping	.28	.06	.29***	.27	.06	.27***
Gender	.04	.06	.04	.04	.06	.04
Step  4
Victim of cyberbullying × problem-focused general coping	−.02	.07	−.02	−.10	.07	−.09
Victim of cyberbullying × emotion-focused general coping	.08	.07	.07	.17	.08	.15*

Note. ¹Depression: 𝑅² =.17^∗∗∗ for Step  1; Δ𝑅²=.12^∗∗∗ for Step  2; Δ𝑅²=.00 for Step  3; Δ𝑅²=.01 for Step  4. Health complaints: 𝑅²=.11^∗∗∗ for Step  1; Δ𝑅²=.06^∗∗∗ for Step  2; Δ𝑅²=.00 for Step  3; Δ𝑅²=.02 for Step  4. ^∗∗∗𝑃<.001, ^∗∗𝑃<.01, ^∗𝑃<.05.