The Role of Self-Control in Cyberbullying Bystander Behavior

Revital Sela-Shayovitz (), Michal Levy and Jonathan Hasson
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Revital Sela-Shayovitz: The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ono Academic College, Kiryat Ono 5510101, Israel
Michal Levy: Special Education Department, David Yellin College of Education, Jerusalem 9634207, Israel
Jonathan Hasson: Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UL, UK

Social Sciences, 2024, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-21

Abstract: The present study examined the association between general low self-control (LSC) and its three subcomponents: risk taking, self-centeredness, and impulsivity and various bystander behaviors of cyberbullying. The study utilized a bifactor modeling approach and included a sample of 501 adolescents aged 14–18 years old. Participants’ behaviors were measured using a self-reported questionnaire. General LSC was positively associated with the cyberbully-supporters’ and passive bystanders’ behaviors. Additionally, risk taking was positively associated with both the victim-defender’s and cyberbully-supporter’s behaviors, while self-centeredness was positively associated with both the passive bystander’s and the cyberbully-supporter’s behaviors. Furthermore, impulsivity was positively associated with the cyberbully-supporter’s behaviors. We conclude that general LSC plays an important role in understanding the cyberbully-supporter’s and passive bystander’s behaviors in cyberspace. Furthermore, the analysis revealed that LSC subcomponents were also associated with the bystanders’ behaviors above and beyond the associations between general LSC and these types of behaviors.

Keywords: low self-control (LSC); bystanders; cyberbullying; risk taking; self-centeredness; impulsivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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