Moving toward a theory: Testing an integrated model of cyberbullying perpetration, aggression, social skills, and Internet self-efficacy

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Highlights:

• General aggression theory is useful for explaining, investigating, and advancing cyberbullying scholarship.

• Trait verbal aggression is consistently positively associated with cyberbullying perpetration.

• Internet self-efficacy moderates the relationship between verbal aggression and social skill.

• The interaction of verbal aggressiveness and social skills on cyberbullying perpetration depends on Internet self-efficacy.

• At low Internet self-efficacy, verbal aggressiveness and social skills do little to predict cyberbullying perpetration.

摘要

•General aggression theory is useful for explaining, investigating, and advancing cyberbullying scholarship.•Trait verbal aggression is consistently positively associated with cyberbullying perpetration.•Internet self-efficacy moderates the relationship between verbal aggression and social skill.•The interaction of verbal aggressiveness and social skills on cyberbullying perpetration depends on Internet self-efficacy.•At low Internet self-efficacy, verbal aggressiveness and social skills do little to predict cyberbullying perpetration.

论文关键词:Cyberbullying,General aggression model,Verbal aggression,Social skills,Internet self-efficacy

论文评审过程:Received 16 August 2016, Revised 2 February 2017, Accepted 4 February 2017, Available online 7 February 2017, Version of Record 14 February 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.016