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Dark personality traits and anger in cyber aggression perpetration: Is moral disengagement to blame? by Taylor R. Nocera; Eric R. Dahlen; Richard S. Mohn; Melanie E. Leuty; Ashley B. Batastini is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.

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A number of dark personality traits (e.g., psychopathy and sadism) have been shown to predict cyber aggression perpetration among emerging adults; however, trait anger and moral disengagement, both useful in understanding other forms of aggression, have not typically been included in these models. The present study tested a model in which dark personality traits and trait anger were expected to predict cyber aggression perpetration and moral disengagement was expected to partially mediate these relationships. Emerging adult volunteers (N ϭ 404; 41% men, 59% women) between 18 and 29 (M ϭ 25.16, SD ϭ 2.76) recruited through Amazon's Mechanical Turk completed an online survey assessing the variables of interest. Structural equation modeling showed that sadism (␤ ϭ 0.450, p Ͻ .001), psychopathy (␤ ϭ 0.118, p ϭ .035), and anger (␤ ϭ 0.099, p ϭ .007) predicted cyber aggression perpetration when taking respondent sex and college enrollment into account, indicating a small effect for anger and psychopathy and a medium effect for sadism. Moral disengagement partially mediated these relationships (24.11% for sadism, 37.23% for psychopathy, and 29.79% for anger). Both trait anger and moral di

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Author

Taylor R. Nocera; Eric R. Dahlen; Richard S. Mohn; Melanie E. Leuty; Ashley B. Batastini

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences