Cyberbullying perpetration and its association with the big five and dark triad personality traits

Cyberbullying, a new variant of interpersonal aggression which occurs online, has been associated with multiple negative outcomes such as increased experience of negative emotions, clinical disorders, and antisocial behaviors. Extant research on the associations between cyberbullying and personality...

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Main Authors: Ng, Angelica Poh Ying, Tan, Denise Yan Lijn
Other Authors: Qiu Lin
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2017
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-702782019-12-10T14:07:10Z Cyberbullying perpetration and its association with the big five and dark triad personality traits Ng, Angelica Poh Ying Tan, Denise Yan Lijn Qiu Lin School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology Cyberbullying, a new variant of interpersonal aggression which occurs online, has been associated with multiple negative outcomes such as increased experience of negative emotions, clinical disorders, and antisocial behaviors. Extant research on the associations between cyberbullying and personality traits in the big five (extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, and openness to experience) and dark triad (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) personality models has highlighted several interesting relationships. This review aims to consolidate and organize these relationships in a coherent manner to provide a clear overview on the association between each trait and cyberbullying perpetration. The review begins with a description of cyberbullying, and its prevalence and outcomes. Following that, the associations between cyberbullying perpetration and each of the personality traits in the aforementioned models are reviewed. Through a comprehensive review of existing literature, only conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, and psychopathy showed largely consistent findings with cyberbullying perpetration. Explanations for such findings are explored, and conflicting explanations are identified. In addition to research implications, prevalent research limitations are identified, and future research directions are proposed. Bachelor of Arts 2017-04-18T07:36:23Z 2017-04-18T07:36:23Z 2017 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70278 en Nanyang Technological University 55 p. application/pdf
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Cyberbullying perpetration and its association with the big five and dark triad personality traits
description Cyberbullying, a new variant of interpersonal aggression which occurs online, has been associated with multiple negative outcomes such as increased experience of negative emotions, clinical disorders, and antisocial behaviors. Extant research on the associations between cyberbullying and personality traits in the big five (extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, and openness to experience) and dark triad (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) personality models has highlighted several interesting relationships. This review aims to consolidate and organize these relationships in a coherent manner to provide a clear overview on the association between each trait and cyberbullying perpetration. The review begins with a description of cyberbullying, and its prevalence and outcomes. Following that, the associations between cyberbullying perpetration and each of the personality traits in the aforementioned models are reviewed. Through a comprehensive review of existing literature, only conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, and psychopathy showed largely consistent findings with cyberbullying perpetration. Explanations for such findings are explored, and conflicting explanations are identified. In addition to research implications, prevalent research limitations are identified, and future research directions are proposed.
author2 Qiu Lin
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Ng, Angelica Poh Ying
Tan, Denise Yan Lijn
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author Ng, Angelica Poh Ying
Tan, Denise Yan Lijn
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title Cyberbullying perpetration and its association with the big five and dark triad personality traits
title_short Cyberbullying perpetration and its association with the big five and dark triad personality traits
title_full Cyberbullying perpetration and its association with the big five and dark triad personality traits
title_fullStr Cyberbullying perpetration and its association with the big five and dark triad personality traits
title_full_unstemmed Cyberbullying perpetration and its association with the big five and dark triad personality traits
title_sort cyberbullying perpetration and its association with the big five and dark triad personality traits
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