With the development of Internet, college students’ online aggressive behavior has become a serious problem in recent years. According to the previous researches, the average rate of online aggressive behavior of college students is 59.5% in China. Exposed to online aggression may change personal emotions, behavior and cognition and finally make individual aggressive. It is thus necessary to find out which factors influence online aggressive behavior of college students. In particular, cyber ostracism and moral disengagement were believed to be strong predictors, so the purposes of the present study are to explore the moderating role of moral disengagement between cyber ostracism and online aggressive behavior with longitudinal study.
We surveyed 2000 college students four times with the Cyber Ostracism Questionnaire (COQ), the Moral Disengagement Questionnaire (MDQ), and the Online Aggressive Behavior Scale (OABS). Data were collected and analyzed with SPSS 25.0 and Mplus 8.3, and the correlation analysis, parallel process latent growth curve model, latent growth models of change rate interaction and latent moderated structural equations were used to analyze the relations among key variables.
The results showed that: (1) Cyber ostracism, moral disengagement, and online aggressive behavior were significantly positively correlated with each other at the time point T1, T2, T3 and T4. (2) The total effect model revealed that the data fit the theoretical model well (χ2/df = 4.39, TLI = .95, CFI = .94, RMSEA = .06, SRMR = .06); The slope of cyber ostracism had a significant effect on the slope of online aggressive behavior (β = .29, p < .001); and the intercept of cyber ostracism had a significant effect on the intercept of online aggressive behavior (β = .24, p < .001). (3) The latent moderated structural equations model fit (AIC = 24789.84, BIC = 24974.46, -2LL = -12359.92) better than the baseline model (AIC = 31293.04, BIC = 31641.19, -2LL = -15580.51); The interaction slope and intercept of cyber ostracism and moral disengagement had a significant effect on the slope of online aggressive behavior (β = -.42, p < .001; β = -.21, p < .05). The slope of cyber ostracism and moral disengagement had a significant effect on the slope of online aggressive behavior (β = .62, p < .001; β = -.88, p < .001); The intercept of cyber ostracism had a significant effect on intercept of online aggressive behavior (β = .35, p < .001). Overall, the development parameters of moral disengagement played moderating roles between the development parameters of cyber ostracism and online aggressive behavior among college students.
In summary, our findings provide evidence that moral disengagement moderates the relation between cyber ostracism and online aggressive behavior. That is, cyber ostracism is the core factor inducing online aggression of college students, and moral disengagement is a key moderating role.
Key words
cyber ostracism /
moral disengagement /
online aggressive behavior /
college students
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