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Participants completed validated Thai-language instruments assessing cyberbullying, social media addiction, perceived stress, and emotional intelligence. Results showed 66.4% of adolescents were involved in cyberbullying, with 32.2% as bully-victims. Social media addiction correlated with cyberbullying perpetration (rs = 0.33, p &lt; 0.001) and victimization (rs = 0.22, p &lt; 0.001), as did perceived stress (rs = 0.20 and 0.29; p &lt; 0.001). Emotional intelligence showed negative correlations with cyberbullying perpetration (rs = \u22120.15, p = 0.002) and victimization (rs = \u22120.10, p = 0.048). Over one-third (34.4%) were at high risk for social media addiction. These findings indicate that during the pandemic-to-endemic transition, Thai adolescents showed elevated cyberbullying involvement, high social media addiction, and moderate-to-high stress\u2014a profile consistent with sustained digital risk. 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