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Learning to hate? Exploring long-term effects of adolescents’ cyberhate exposure

JAROŇ BEDROŠOVÁ, Marie; Vojtěch MÝLEK and Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Learning to hate? Exploring long-term effects of adolescents’ cyberhate exposure

Authors

JAROŇ BEDROŠOVÁ, Marie; Vojtěch MÝLEK and Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ

Edition

14th Conference of the Media Psychology Division (MediaPsych 2025), 2025

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Presentations at conferences

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

Organization

Fakulta sociálních studií – Repository – Repository

Keywords in English

cyberhate; social learning; desensitisation; adolcents; longitudinal

Links

CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004583, interní kód Repo. EH22_008/0004583, research and development project.
Changed: 1/10/2025 00:51, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

In the original language

amp; Wright, 2018; Wachs et al., 2021). Adopting the social learning theory, we investigate whether frequent exposure fosters learned cyberhate behaviours in the form of cyberhate aggression. We also explore whether moral disengagement mediates this association. We will use longitudinal online survey data from 3,087 Czech adolescents (ages 11-16, M=13.47, SD=1.74; 50.1% boys) collected over four waves, six months apart, in 2021-2022. We used quota sampling to ensure (1) that included households represent Czech households with children in terms of SES, region, and municipality size, and (2) balanced age and gender groups. We measured cyberhate exposure and perpetration using two single-item measures and moral disengagement using a four-item scale (adapted from Garland et al., 2016). We will test within-person longitudinal effects between these variables using the random intercept cross-lagged panel model (Hamaker et al., 2015).

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