A systematic literature review of the relationship between dark personality traits and antisocial online behaviours

Moor, Lily; Anderson, Joel R.

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A systematic literature review of the relationship between dark personality traits and antisocial online behaviours

Moor, Lily, Anderson, Joel R.·2019·Personality and Individual Differences

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Dark triad personality traits are positively associated with online antisocial behaviors, particularly cyberstalking, online trolling, and cyberbullying.
“Several researches reveal that dark triad’s personality traits seem to be positively associated with the problematic addition to the Internet [32] and with online antisocial behaviors, particularly cyberstalking [9,16], online trolling [10,33,34] and cyberbullying [35].”
From Dark Personality Traits and Online Behaviors: Portuguese Versions of Cyberstalking, Online Harassment, Flaming and Trolling Scales (2023) · cites this paper as [16]
Psychopathy is the darkest of traits, based on its ability to predict behaviors of 'high severity', namely cyberaggression and technology facilitated sexual violence.
“In turn, the results of the systematic review of the literature conducted by Moor and Anderson [16] suggest that psychopathy is the darkest of traits, based on its ability to predict behaviors of “high severity”, namely cyberaggression and technology facilitated sexual violence.”
From Dark Personality Traits and Online Behaviors: Portuguese Versions of Cyberstalking, Online Harassment, Flaming and Trolling Scales (2023) · cites this paper as [16]
Dimensions of the dark triad of personality explain online behaviors.
“These associations reinforce the behavioral characteristics of these individuals and how they may behave on the Internet, allowing us to suggest that dimensions of the dark triad of personality explain online behaviors [4,9,10,16,20,32,34,35,38,39,63].”
From Dark Personality Traits and Online Behaviors: Portuguese Versions of Cyberstalking, Online Harassment, Flaming and Trolling Scales (2023) · cites this paper as [16]
Psychopathy is the strongest and most consistent predictor of antisocial online behaviors, followed by Machiavellianism and everyday sadism.
“A meta-analysis of antisocial online behaviors found that psychopathy was the strongest and most consistent predictor of antisocial online behaviors, followed by Machiavellianism and everyday sadism (Moor & Anderson 2019)”
From Social Media and Morality. (2024) · cites this paper as Moor & Anderson 2019

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Authors: Moor, L., & Anderson, J. R.
Affiliations: Australian Catholic University (AU)
Corresponding author: Anderson, Joel R.
ORCID: Moor, Lily
Anderson, Joel R.
Venue: Personality and Individual Differences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2019-07
Volume: 144
Pages: 40-55
ISSN: 0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.027
OpenAlex: W2918479466
Cited by: 231
References: 75
Citations by year: 2026: 27 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 38 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1
FWCI: 3.44
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
Funders: Australian Catholic University
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
Keywords: dark personality traits, Dark Triad, Dark Tetrad, narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism, everyday sadism, trolling, online aggression, cyberbullying, social media addiction, problematic online gaming, internet use disorders, cyberstalking, technology-facilitated sexual violence, sexting

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