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

Table 7

Summary of the hierarchical regression analyses of bullied children for the predicted values of depression (𝑁=67) and health complaints (𝑁=69).

Predicting variables	Depressive feeling^1			Health complaints
	B	SE B	β	B	SE B	β
Step  1
Frequency of cyberbullying	.31	.13	.29^∗	.32	.11	.33^∗∗
Step  2
Frequency of cyberbullying	.05^∗	.11	.05*	.19	.10	.19
Problem focused general coping	−.18	.16	−.16	.15	.15	.15
Emotion focused general coping	−.09	.12	−.08	.08	.12	.08
Problem focused cyberspecific coping	−.09	.17	−.07	−.22	.16	−.20
Emotion focused cyberspecific coping	.82	.13	.71^∗∗∗	.56	.12	.54^∗∗
Step  3
Frequency of cyberbullying	−.06	.11	−.06	.13	.11	.13
Problem focused general coping	−.19	.15	−.17	.14	.15	.14
Emotion focused general coping	−.07	.12	−.07	.08	.12	.08
Problem focused cyberspecific coping	−.06	.16	−.05	−.20	.16	−.18
Emotion focused cyberspecific coping	.82	.12	.71^∗∗	.56	.12	.54^∗∗∗
Gender	−.12	.11	−.10	.04	.11	.03
Duration of the cyberbullying	.31	.12	.25*	.14	.13	.12

Note: ¹Depressive feelings: 𝑅²=.08^∗ for Step  1; Δ𝑅²=.43^∗∗∗ for Step  2; Δ𝑅²=.05^∗ for Step  3; Δ𝑅²=.04 for Step  4. Health complaints: 𝑅²=.11^∗∗ for Step  1; Δ𝑅²=.31^∗∗∗ for Step  2; Δ𝑅²=.01 for Step  3.