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Dark tetrad of personality, cyberbullying, and cybertrolling among young adults

Published:2022-11-08 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1046-1310
Container-title:Current Psychology
language:en
Short-container-title:Curr Psychol

Author:

Alavi Masoumeh^ORCID,Latif Adibah Abdul,Ramayah T.,Tan Jia Yue

Abstract

AbstractCommunication applications and social media sites serve as a platform for users to distribute information and connect to other users, potentially allowing perpetrators to perform antisocial behaviors. The current study examined the relationship between Dark Tetrad of personality (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism) and antisocial cyber-behaviors (i.e., cyberbullying, cybertrolling) by surveying young Malaysians (n = 323) aged from 18 to 26. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) revealed that Machiavellianism was not related to cyberbullying and cybertrolling, while narcissism was positively related to cyberbullying but not related to cybertrolling. Meanwhile, psychopathy and sadism were positively related to cyberbullying and cybertrolling. The results of this study contribute to the cyber-behaviors literature, knowledge about the antisocial cyber-behaviors in Malaysia, supports sadism as a dark personality and the study acts as a reference to minimize these behaviors.

Funder

Griffith University

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

General Psychology

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12144-022-03892-4.pdf

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