TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Cross-cultural similarities and differences in the theoretical predictors of cyberbullying perpetration: results from a seven-country study
JO  - Aggressive behavior
A1  - Barlett, Christopher P.
A1  - Seyfert, Luke W.
A1  - Simmers, Matthew M.
A1  - Hsueh Hua Chen, Vivian
A1  - Cavalcanti, Jaqueline Gomes
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
A1  - Suzuki, Kanae
A1  - Warburton, Wayne A.
A1  - Wong, Randy Yee Man
A1  - Pimentel, Carlos Eduardo
A1  - Skowronski, Marika
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - The Barlett Gentile cyberbullying model (BGCM) posits that correlated anonymity perceptions and the belief in the irrelevance of muscularity for online bullying (BIMOB) predict positive cyberbullying attitudes to predict subsequent cyberbullying perpetration. Much research has shown the BGCM to be the only published theory that differentiates traditional and cyberbullying while validly predicting cyberbullying. So far, however, the cross-cultural ubiquity has gone understudied. Thus, 1,592 adult participants across seven countries (USA, Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, and Singapore) completed measures germane to the BGCM. Supporting the BGCM, the variables were significantly correlated for the entire sample, participants from independent cultures, and participants from interdependent cultures. However, the relationship between BIMOB and positive cyberbullying attitudes as well as the relationship between positive cyberbullying attitudes and cyberbullying perpetration were stronger for independent cultures. These results suggest that the BGCM postulates are mostly universal, but several relations appear to be culturally different. Theoretical implications are discussed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-140X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ab.21923
ID  - ref1
ER  -