Technology and violence: Conceptual issues raised by the rapidly changing social environment.

Sugarman, David; Willoughby, Teena

doi:10.1037/a0031010

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“…Many studies have pointed out the association between cyberbullying and aggression (Ang, Tan, & Mansor, 2010;Aricak et al, 2008;Calvete, Orue, Estevéz, Villardón, & Padilla, 2010;Dilmaç, 2009;Gradinger, Strohmeier, & Spiel, 6 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2012), whereas some of the authors even use aggression (or cyber-aggression) as an umbrella term for all such behavior, including bullying and cyberbullying. Also, there are wide variations in terminology and definitions within the literature of aggression up to this point, which makes it difficult to compare and generalize the results (Sugarman & Willoughby, 2013). Thus, offline aggression can serve as a key concept to understand cyberbullying, yet little is known about how specific groups of young people involved in cyberbullying differ in offline aggression, as it has not been studied to the extent that traditional bullying has.…”

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Cyberbullying

Bayraktar

Macháčková

Dědková

et al. 2014

J Interpers Violence

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Although the research on cyberbullying has increased dramatically in recent years, still little is known about how cyberbullying participant groups (i.e., cyberbullies, cybervictims, and cyberbully-victims) differ from one another. This study aims to discriminate between these groups at an individual and relational level by controlling for age and gender. Self-control, offline aggression, and self-esteem are analyzed as individual-level variables. Parental attachment and peer rejection are involved as relational-level variables. A total of 2,092 Czech adolescents aged 12 to 18 were enrolled from a random sample of 34 primary and secondary schools located in the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic. Discriminant function analyses indicated that the participant groups are discriminated by two functions. The first function increases the separation between cyberbullies and cyberbully-victims from cybervictims, indicating that cyberbullies and cyberbully-victims are similar to each other in terms of low self-control, offline aggression, and gender, and have higher scores on measures of low self-esteem and offline aggression. However, cyberbully-victims had the highest scores on these measures. The second function discriminates between all three groups, which indicates that those variables included in the second function (i.e., parental attachment, peer rejection, self-esteem, and age) distinguish all three involved groups.

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Cyberbullying

Bayraktar

Macháčková

Dědková

et al. 2014

J Interpers Violence

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“…Digital Dating Abuse 'Digital dating abuse is broadly defined as harassing, threatening, monitoring, impersonating, humiliating, or verbally abusing one's current partner through the use of technology, such as cell phones, social media, or electronic mail' (see Belknap et al 2012;Melander 2010;Sugarman andWilloughby 2013, as cited in Wolford-Clevenger et al 2016, p. 156). Although both online and offline abuse can be detrimental to victims and relationships, abuse which occurs online is particularly invasive, as physical proximity is not required, as compared to offline abuse (Bennett et al 2011;Zweig et al 2013).…”

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Mate Value Discrepancy and Attachment Anxiety Predict the Perpetration of Digital Dating Abuse

Bhogal

Howman

2018

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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Research suggests that individual differences in attachment style predict the perpetration of digital dating abuse. In addition to attachment style, no research, to our knowledge, has explored the role of mate value in the perpetration of digital dating abuse. In this paper, we argue that digital dating abuse is a contemporary cost-inflicting mate retention behaviour, where larger mate value discrepancies between partners are associated with higher levels of digital dating abuse (n = 167). As expected, high mate value discrepancy and attachment anxiety were associated with high levels of digital dating abuse. We provide novel support for the relationship between mate value discrepancy and digital dating abuse. Our findings provide support for additional, unexplored factors which lead to the perpetration of digital dating abuse.

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“…The evolution of technology in recent years has increased the modalities in which individuals can abuse their partners (Sugarman & Willoughby, 2013), and this increase has largely outpaced research examining the potential impact of abuse by these new modalities. For example, some evidence suggests that cyber abuse is related to detrimental relationship outcomes such as psychological and physical aggression occurring offline (Brem, Spiller, & Vandehey, 2014; Schnurr, Mahatmya, & Basche, 2013).…”

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An examination of the Partner Cyber Abuse Questionnaire in a college student sample.

Wolford‐Clevenger

Zapor

Brasfield

et al. 2016

Psychology of Violence

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Objective To examine the factor structure and convergent validity of a newly developed measure of an understudied form of partner abuse, cyber abuse, and to examine the prevalence of, and gender differences in, victimization by cyber abuse. Method College students in a dating relationship (N = 502) completed the Partner Cyber Abuse Questionnaire (Hamby, 2013), as well as measures of partner abuse victimization and depression. Results Using exploratory factor analysis, we determined a one-factor solution was the most statistically and conceptually best fitting model. The cyber abuse victimization factor was correlated with depressive symptoms and physical, psychological, and sexual partner abuse victimization, supporting the convergent validity of the measure. The overall prevalence of victimization by cyber abuse was 40%, with victimization by specific acts ranging from 2–31%. Men and women did not differ in their victimization by cyber abuse. Conclusions Cyber abuse is prevalent among college students and occurs concurrently with other partner abuse forms and depressive symptoms. Given the interrelated nature of partner abuse forms, prevention and intervention programs should address partner abuse occurring in-person and through technology. Cyber abuse should also be considered in the conceptualization and measurement of partner abuse to more fully understand this social problem.

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Technology and violence: Conceptual issues raised by the rapidly changing social environment.

Cited by 26 publications

References 51 publications

Cyberbullying

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Mate Value Discrepancy and Attachment Anxiety Predict the Perpetration of Digital Dating Abuse

An examination of the Partner Cyber Abuse Questionnaire in a college student sample.

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