To troll or not to troll: Young adults' anti-social behaviour on social media.
Felipe Bonow SoaresAnatoliy GruzdJenna JacobsonJaigris HodsonPublished in: PloS one (2023)
The model shows positive associations between two appetitive motives for cyber-aggression (namely recreation and reward) and being a perpetrator. This finding indicates that young adults engage in online anti-social behaviour for fun and social approval. The model also shows a negative association between cognitive empathy and being a perpetrator, which indicates that perpetrators may be engaging in online anti-social behaviour because they do not understand how their targets feel.