Online celebrity aggression: A combination of low empathy and high moral disengagement? The relationship between empathy and moral disengagement and adolescents' online celebrity aggression

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Highlights：

• Adolescents also aggress toward other targets, such as celebrities.

• Affective empathy is negatively associated with severe online celebrity aggression.

• Empathy is not associated with mild online celebrity aggression.

• Moral disengagement is a mediator between empathy and celebrity aggression.

摘要

•Adolescents also aggress toward other targets, such as celebrities.•Affective empathy is negatively associated with severe online celebrity aggression.•Empathy is not associated with mild online celebrity aggression.•Moral disengagement is a mediator between empathy and celebrity aggression.

论文关键词：Celebrity bashing,Cyberbullying,Online aggression,Moral disengagement,Empathy

论文评审过程：Received 25 January 2018, Revised 11 June 2018, Accepted 23 July 2018, Available online 23 July 2018, Version of Record 1 August 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.07.029