Figure 4.

Adolescents’ prior peer victimization moderated feelings of rejection, negative affect, and negative self-referent cognitive responses to insufficient social validation on a social media task, in Study 3.

Note: N= 503, moderation analyses excluded participants who did not complete the peer victimization scale prior to the social media task administration. Interaction effects were tested in ordinary linear regression models with a full continuous moderator. We plotted simple slopes of prior face-to-face peer victimization at Few Likes (solid light gray lines) vs. Many Likes (dashed dark gray lines) condition. Simple effects of likes condition were tested at “no prior peer victimization” (at composite score= 1 of x-axis) vs. “moderate-high levels of prior peer victimization” (at composite score= 3 of x-axis). b= unstandardized betas; *** p < .001, ** p < .01, * p < .05, + p < .10.