TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying perpetration: the role of dark personality traits
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Kırcaburun, Kağan
A1  - Jonason, Peter
A1  - Griffiths, Mark D.
A1  - Aslanargun, Engin
A1  - Emirtekin, Emrah
A1  - Tosuntaş, Şule B.
A1  - Billieux, Joel
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Dark personality traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, spitefulness, and sadism) are associated with adverse childhood experiences and deviant online behaviors. However, their mediating role between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying has never previously been investigated. We examined direct and indirect associations of childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying via dark personality traits among 772 participants. Men were better characterized by dark personality traits and were more likely to engage in cyberbullying than women, and there were no sex differences in childhood emotional abuse. Collectively, dark traits fully mediated the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying in men, with partial mediation in the total sample and women. More specifically, Machiavellianism and spitefulness were mediators in both samples, sadism was a mediator in men and the total sample, and psychopathy was a mediator in the total sample and women. The dark personality traits can account for the association between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying, especially among men.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260519889930
ID  - ref1
ER  -