Flaming and trolling as a type of cyberaggression: the role structure and features of digital sociality

 
PIIS020595920015229-7-1
DOI10.31857/S020595920015229-7
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Occupation: professor of personality psychology department
Affiliation: Moscow State University
Address: Moscow, Russian Federation
Occupation: Associate professor of clinical psychology department, leading researcher of the international laboratory of positive personality psychology and motivation
Affiliation:
Moscow State University
National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Address: Russian Federation
Occupation: Deputy head of the social psychology department
Affiliation: Moscow State University, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Address: Russian Federation
Journal namePsikhologicheskii zhurnal
EditionVolume 42 issue 3
Pages87-96
Abstract

The transformation of aggression into its “cyber” form indicated an interest in those socio-psychological and user factors and mechanisms that are behind risky and aggressive online behavior. In addition to the task of identifying the socio-psychological factors of the collision of adolescents and youth with cyberaggression, the paper analyzes through the prism of different roles in flaming as the most common types of cyberaggression, the features of digital sociality, which is formed as a result of the experience of social online interaction. 1,554 adolescents 12−17 years old, 736 young people and 1105 parents of adolescents from 8 federal districts of Russia assessed their experience and possible reaction to the collision with flaming, and also completed methods to measure user activity, compliance with the rules of online and offline communication, Internet addiction, personality traits, tolerance, empathy, aggression. According to the results, the role of the witness of aggression – the leading online role among adolescents and youth, is often underestimated by parents. The risk of encountering flaming is higher with higher user activity, especially in adolescents aged 12−13, and observation of online aggression is associated with less tolerance and awareness, less willingness to follow the rules of polite communication online and offline, more aggression and neuroticism. The selection of active aggressive role is associated with an even higher level of aggressiveness and a lower level of agreeableness and tolerance, while the choice of active pro-social role is associated with higher rates of agreeableness, empathy, tolerance and willingness to follow the rules of polite communication online and offline.

Keywordscyberaggression, adolescents, social roles, flaming, aggression, tolerance, personality
AcknowledgmentResearch was supported by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research, project 20-013-00857 “Socio-cultural and personal predictors of destructive and self-destructive behavior on the Internet in adolescents and youth”
Received04.06.2021
Publication date12.06.2021
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