ArticlePloS one2023
To troll or not to troll: Young adults' anti-social behaviour on social media.
Article in PloS one, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Adult cyberabuse: two intersecting studies examining intrapersonal characteristics and prediction of victimisation and perpetration.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2026Article
- Social-Cognitive Factors in Antisocial Behavior and School Violence: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Greek Vocational Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Identity Bubble Reinforcement Scale (IBRS) in a Sample of Chilean Adolescent Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cyberpsychopathy: A Multidimensional Framework for Understanding Psychopathic Traits in Digital Environments.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundOnline anti-social behaviour is on the rise, reducing the perceived benefits of social media in society and causing a number of negative outcomes. This research focuses on the factors associated with young adults being perpetrators of anti-social behaviour when using social media.
methodBased on an online survey of university students in Canada (n = 359), we used PLS-SEM to create a model and test the associations between four factors (online disinhibition, motivations for cyber-aggression, self-esteem, and empathy) and the likelihood of being a perpetrator of online anti-social behaviour.
resultsThe model shows positive associations between two appetitive motives for cyber-aggression (namely recreation and reward) and being a perpetrator. This finding indicates that young adults engage in online anti-social behaviour for fun and social approval. The model also shows a negative association between cognitive empathy and being a perpetrator, which indicates that perpetrators may be engaging in online anti-social behaviour because they do not understand how their targets feel.
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