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ABSTRACTIntroduction: Cyberbullyinghas become a new case inyoung millennials that can lead to beinga serious problem if it is not faced properly. Many cases cannot be resolved because the victims did not tell the truth clearly to their parents and teachers. It may cause alack of self-esteem among the students and also make the perpetrator become morally disengaged. The purpose of this study was to identify the correlation betweenparental communication patterns, moral disengagement, and self-esteem with cyberbullying behavior in junior high school.Methods:A cross-sectional study was performed with 362 junior high school students inIndonesia using purposive sampling. Variablesin this study were moral disengagement, self-esteem and parental communication patterns with cyberbullyingbehavior. The data were collected with the Rosenberg self-esteem scale, the cyberbullying behavior scale, the moral disengagement scale and the family communication pattern scale. Bivariate analysis with Chi-square was used to analyze the data. Results:This study found out that there were 223 students, 61.6%were female, and 43.6% were aged 14 years. There were 187 students (51.7%) who had mild cyberbullying behavior. The study revealed that there were significant correlations among cyberbullyingbehavior with moral disengagement (p=0.005, self-esteem (p=0.008), and parental communication pattern (p=0.019).Conclusions:Parental communication, moral disengagement and self-esteem have a correlation with cyberbullying behavior. It was expected that the schools need to implement a training to improve social skills in junior high school students.