Dark tetrad of personality, cyberbullying, and cybertrolling among young adults

Abstract Communication applications and social media sites serve as a platform for users to distribute information connect other users, potentially allowing perpetrators perform antisocial behaviors. The current study examined the relationship between Dark Tetrad of personality (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism) cyber-behaviors cyberbullying, cybertrolling) by surveying young Malaysians (n = 323) aged from 18 26. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) revealed that Machiavellianism was not related cyberbullying cybertrolling, while narcissism positively but cybertrolling. Meanwhile, psychopathy sadism were results this contribute literature, knowledge about in Malaysia, supports dark acts reference minimize these