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- Title
Agreeableness and adolescents' cyberbullying perpetration: A longitudinal moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and empathy.
- Authors
Gao, Ling; Li, Xuan; Wang, Xingchao
- Abstract
Objective: The current study explored whether agreeableness predicted cyberbullying perpetration across 3 years and extended previous studies by exploring the mediating effect of moral disengagement and the moderating effects of empathy and gender. Method: The participants included 2407 adolescents from 7 middle schools in China. They were recruited to complete the Big Five Personality Inventory, Bullying Scale and Empathy Scale at Time 1, Moral Disengagement Scale at Time 1 and Time 2, and Cyberbullying Perpetration Scale at Time 1, Time 2, and Time 3. Results: Agreeableness at Time 1 predicted cyberbullying perpetration at Time 3 and moral disengagement at Time 2 mediated this relationship. The relationship between moral disengagement at Time 2 and cyberbullying perpetration at Time 3 was stronger for low cognitive empathy adolescents than high cognitive empathy adolescents at Time 1. The relationship between agreeableness at Time 1 and cyberbullying perpetration adolescents at Time 3 was stronger for low affective empathy than high affective empathy adolescents at Time 1. The link between moral disengagement at Time 2 and cyberbullying perpetration at Time 3 was weaker for females than males. Conclusions: Low agreeableness adolescents are more likely to use moral disengagement, which in turn leads to more cyberbullying perpetration.
- Subjects
CHINA; CYBERBULLYING; INTERNET &; teenagers; PSYCHOLOGICAL disengagement; EMPATHY; MIDDLE schools; FIVE-factor model of personality; PERSONALITY assessment
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 2023, Vol 91, Issue 6, p1461
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jopy.12823