How the Human is the Catalyst: Personality, Aggressive Fantasy, and Proactive-Reactive Aggression Among Users of Social Media
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-27-2017
Publication Title
Personality and Individual Differences
Volume
133
First page number:
91
Last page number:
95
Abstract
Technology users frequently experience online aggression in the forms of cyberbullying and/or trolling (Pew Research Center, 2014), but there exists only a limited understanding of what promotes these negative behaviors. The current study focuses on reasons why individuals may act aggressively in an online environment. Specifically, two types of online aggression (proactive and reactive) were examined across individual differences including personality and the presence of aggressive fantasies. Findings show that the personality characteristics of extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability predicted proactive aggression, while agreeableness and emotional stability predicted reactive aggression. Further, agreeableness, emotional stability and intellect predicted aggressive fantasies, and aggressive fantasies predicted both proactive and reactive aggression. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
Keywords
Aggressive fantasies; Personality; Proactive/reactive aggression; Social media
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Media
Language
English
Repository Citation
McCreery, M.,
Kathleen-Krach, S.
(2017).
How the Human is the Catalyst: Personality, Aggressive Fantasy, and Proactive-Reactive Aggression Among Users of Social Media.
Personality and Individual Differences, 133
91-95.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.037