Gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook: the role of empathy, callous unemotional traits, and moral disengagement
Despite extensive research on cyberbullying, the interplay between gender, personality factors, and cyberbullying perpetration behaviours on social networking sites remains underexplored, particularly among young adults. This study aims to examine gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on...
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Despite extensive research on cyberbullying, the interplay between gender, personality factors, and cyberbullying perpetration behaviours on social networking sites remains underexplored, particularly among young adults. This study aims to examine gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook and, guided by the General Aggression Model as the theoretical framework, to explain how individual factors such as empathy, callous-unemotional traits, and moral disengagement, as moderated by the number of Facebook friends, contribute to cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook. This study investigates this complex association among a community sample of 171 participants aged 18 to 35 years (57.9% female), selected through convenience sampling and the snowball recruitment method. The findings revealed no significant interaction effects of the number of Facebook friends in the association between personality factors and cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook. More, results showed no significant gender differences in the frequency of cyberbullying perpetration. However, distinct gender patterns emerged in the association between personality traits and cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook. Males demonstrated stronger associations between moral disengagement, cognitive empathy, and cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook, while females exhibited significant associations between cognitive and affective empathy and cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook. The implications of these findings are thoroughly discussed in relation to existing literature.
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| spelling | doaj-art-178f0881c8374d32a0ea15fc23e375f72024-12-02T09:11:45ZengUCOPressPsychology, Society & Education1989-709X2024-11-0116310.21071/pse.v16i3.16997Gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook: the role of empathy, callous unemotional traits, and moral disengagementEleftherios Baltzidis0University of Kent, Canterbury (United Kingdom) Despite extensive research on cyberbullying, the interplay between gender, personality factors, and cyberbullying perpetration behaviours on social networking sites remains underexplored, particularly among young adults. This study aims to examine gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook and, guided by the General Aggression Model as the theoretical framework, to explain how individual factors such as empathy, callous-unemotional traits, and moral disengagement, as moderated by the number of Facebook friends, contribute to cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook. This study investigates this complex association among a community sample of 171 participants aged 18 to 35 years (57.9% female), selected through convenience sampling and the snowball recruitment method. The findings revealed no significant interaction effects of the number of Facebook friends in the association between personality factors and cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook. More, results showed no significant gender differences in the frequency of cyberbullying perpetration. However, distinct gender patterns emerged in the association between personality traits and cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook. Males demonstrated stronger associations between moral disengagement, cognitive empathy, and cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook, while females exhibited significant associations between cognitive and affective empathy and cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook. The implications of these findings are thoroughly discussed in relation to existing literature. https://journals.uco.es/psye/article/view/16997General Aggression ModelSocial Networking SitesPersonality factorsOnline behaviour |
| spellingShingle | Eleftherios Baltzidis Gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook: the role of empathy, callous unemotional traits, and moral disengagement Psychology, Society & Education General Aggression Model Social Networking Sites Personality factors Online behaviour |
| title | Gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook: the role of empathy, callous unemotional traits, and moral disengagement |
| title_full | Gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook: the role of empathy, callous unemotional traits, and moral disengagement |
| title_fullStr | Gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook: the role of empathy, callous unemotional traits, and moral disengagement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook: the role of empathy, callous unemotional traits, and moral disengagement |
| title_short | Gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on Facebook: the role of empathy, callous unemotional traits, and moral disengagement |
| title_sort | gender differences in cyberbullying perpetration on facebook the role of empathy callous unemotional traits and moral disengagement |
| topic | General Aggression Model Social Networking Sites Personality factors Online behaviour |
| url | https://journals.uco.es/psye/article/view/16997 |
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