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Abstract：
In the general population, prevalence rates of cyberbullying victimization have continuously increased over the past decades. However, the extent to which these increasing numbers affect clinical populations seeking treatment in outpatient services remains an open question. The present study sought to examine whether the increase of cyberbullying victimization is also reflected by increased reports of cyberbullying victimization in a clinical outpatient population. In addition, we assessed the incremental contribution of experiences of cyberbullying in the prediction of psychological symptoms when controlling for histories of childhood maltreatment and offline peer victimization. For this purpose, we analyzed routine data from N = 827 outpatients who had sought treatment at a University outpatient clinic for psychotherapy between 2012 and 2021 in a cross-sectional study design. Analyses showed that 8.3% of the patients born in the years 1980 to 2002 indicated the experience of cyberbullying victimization in their adolescence. The rate of reported cyberbullying victimization increased from 1 to 3% in patients born in the years 1980 to 1987 to 24% in patients born in the year 2000. A logistic regression revealed that patients born in the years 1995-2002 were up to nineteen times as likely to report cyberbullying victimization as patients born in the years 1980-1982. In addition, hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that cyberbullying victimization significantly accounted for an incremental proportion of variance (1%) in the prediction of psychological symptom distress after controlling for child maltreatment and offline peer victimization. In conclusion, this retrospective survey indicates an increase of the clinical relevance of cyberbullying victimization both in frequency of and potential contribution to etiology. Raising attention to cyberbullying in clinical care and research seems to be justified and warranted.
摘要：
在一般人群中,在过去的几十年中，网络欺凌受害的患病率不断增加。然而,这些越来越多的数字在多大程度上影响了在门诊服务中寻求治疗的临床人群，这仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。本研究试图检查网络欺凌受害的增加是否也反映在临床门诊人群中网络欺凌受害的报道增加。此外,我们评估了在控制儿童虐待和离线同伴受害的历史时，网络欺凌经验在预测心理症状方面的增量贡献。为此,我们分析了2012-2021年间在大学门诊寻求心理治疗的N=827例门诊患者的常规数据,这些患者采用横断面研究设计.分析表明，在1980年至2002年出生的患者中，有8.3％的患者表示在青春期遭受网络欺凌的经历。报告的网络欺凌受害率从1980年至1987年出生的患者的1％至3％增加到2000年出生的患者的24％。逻辑回归显示，1995-2002年出生的患者报告网络欺凌受害的可能性是1980-1982年出生的患者的19倍。此外,分层多元回归分析表明，在控制儿童虐待和离线同伴受害后，网络欺凌受害在预测心理症状困扰方面占方差的增量比例（1％）。总之,这项回顾性调查表明，网络欺凌受害的临床相关性在频率和对病因的潜在贡献方面都有所增加。在临床护理和研究中提高对网络欺凌的关注似乎是合理和合理的。
