Dark Personality Traits In Cyber Aggression Among College Students
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
3-1-2017
School
Psychology
Abstract
Cyber aggression refers to deliberately and repeatedly harming others through any electronic device (Doane, Kelley, Chiang, & Padilla, 2013; Griff, 2010). Despite clear evidence supporting the importance of cyber aggression among adolescents (Hinduja & Patchin, 2015), far less is known about its prevalence and correlates among emerging adults. The present study used an online survey of college students (N = 317) to explore the relationship of cyber aggression to overt and relational aggression and to examine the role of dark personality traits in predicting the perpetration of cyber aggression. The perpetration of cyber aggression was more closely related to the perpetration of relational aggression than to the perpetration of overt physical or verbal aggression. Pathological narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism, and spitefulness were positively related to the cyber aggression perpetration and victimization. The perpetration of cyber aggression was predicted by narcissistic grandiosity, psychopathy, spitefulness, and sadism while taking respondent gender into account.
Publication Title
63rd Annual Convention of the Southeastern Psychological Association
Recommended Citation
Bolton, T.,
Dahlen, E. R.
(2017). Dark Personality Traits In Cyber Aggression Among College Students. 63rd Annual Convention of the Southeastern Psychological Association.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/19651
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