Sarcastic and Deviant Trolling in Turkey: Associations With Dark Triad and Aggression
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The aim of this study is twofold. First, this study develops a new scale measuring sarcastic trolling and investigates the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Troll Deviancy Scale. Second, this study explores the associations among different trolling measures, dark triad, and overt and relational aggression. Eight items measuring sarcasm in trolling were written to develop a Likert type of scale. In total, 809 university students participated in the study and completed an online questionnaire. Findings suggested that both the sarcastic trolling scale and the Turkish version of the Troll Deviancy Scales are valid and reliable. Analyses showed that there were significant associations among trolling measures. Moreover, the differential predictive value of dark personality traits and overt and relational aggression in different forms of trolling were revealed. This study extends the existing literature on linking personality traits and aggression to a new form of trolling. Moreover, this study focused on a non-Western culture to examine different forms of trolling behaviors.
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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 [10]
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].”
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“Manuoğlu and Öner-Özkan [10] highlighted the importance of analyzing the role of the dark triad of personality in online behavior, considering that these personality traits can have a negative impact and with serious consequences on these behaviors.”
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- Authors
- Manuoğlu, E., & Öner-Özkan, B.
- Affiliations
- Palacký University Olomouc (CZ)
- Middle East Technical University (TR)
- Corresponding author
- Manuoğlu, Elif
- Venue
- Social Media + Society
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2022-07
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 2056-3051 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4296885339
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 2.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Social Media + Society (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Humor Studies and Applications
- Keywords
- Dark Triad, overt aggression, relational aggression, personality traits, online harassment, university students, non-Western cultures
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