The associations between cyberbullying and callous-unemotional traits among adolescents
- The aim of the present study was to investigate the potential moderating role of online disinhibition in the associations between adolescents' callous-unemotional traits (callousness, uncaring, unemotional) and anonymous and non-anonymous cyberbullying. To this end, 1047 (49.2% female) 7th and 8th graders completed questionnaires on their face-to-face bullying, cyberbullying, callous-unemotional traits, and online disinhibition. The findings revealed that increases in uncaring were more associated with self-reported non-anonymous and anonymous cyberbullying at higher levels of online disinhibition. The findings are discussed in the context of the characteristics associated with callous-unemotional traits, and how these characteristics increase adolescents' risk of cyberbullying perpetration. Recommendations are made for tailoring intervention programs to consider adolescents' personality traits.
| Author details: | Michelle F. WrightORCiDGND, Bridgette D. Harper, Sebastian WachsORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.04.001 |
| ISSN: | 0191-8869 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Personality and individual differences : an international journal of research into the structure and development of personality, and the causation of individual differences |
| Subtitle (English): | the moderating effect of online disinhibition |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2019 |
| Publication year: | 2019 |
| Release date: | 2021/03/10 |
| Tag: | Anonymity; Callous-unemotional traits; Callousness; Cyberbullying; Online disinhibition; Uncaring; Unemotional |
| Volume: | 140 |
| Number of pages: | 5 |
| First page: | 41 |
| Last Page: | 45 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Bildungswissenschaften / Department Erziehungswissenschaft |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
