1 Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, University of Victoria , Victoria, Canada .
2 Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia , Perth, Australia .
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2015 Jul;18(7):400-5. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2014.0670.
The study of moral disengagement has greatly informed research on aggression and bullying. There has been some debate on whether cyberbullies and other cyber-aggressors show more or less of a tendency for moral disengagement than traditional aggressors and bullies. However, according to the triadic model of reciprocal determinism, an individual's behavior influences and is influenced by both personal factors and his/her social environment. This article reviews the literature to propose a new conceptual framework addressing how features of the online context may enable specific mechanisms that facilitate moral disengagement. Specific affordances for moral disengagement proposed here include the paucity of social-emotional cues, the ease of disseminating communication via social networks, and the media attention on cyberbullying, which may elicit moral justification, euphemistic labeling, palliative comparison, diffusion and displacement of responsibility, minimizing and disregarding the consequences for others, dehumanization, and attribution of blame. These ideas suggest that by providing affordances for these mechanisms of moral disengagement, online settings may facilitate cyber-aggression and cyberbullying.
道德去责任化的研究极大地推动了对攻击和欺凌行为的研究。对于网络欺凌者和其他网络攻击者是否比传统的攻击者和欺凌者表现出更多或更少的道德去责任化倾向,存在一些争议。然而,根据相互决定论的三元模型,个体的行为既受到个人因素的影响,也受到其社会环境的影响。本文回顾了文献,提出了一个新的概念框架,探讨了网络环境的特征如何能够促进特定的道德去责任化机制。本文提出的道德去责任化的具体促进因素包括:社交情感线索的缺乏、通过社交网络轻松传播信息的能力,以及媒体对网络欺凌行为的关注,这可能引发道德合理化、委婉标签、缓解性比较、责任分散和转移、最小化和忽视对他人的后果、去人性化以及归因于他人的责任。这些观点表明,通过为这些道德去责任化机制提供便利,网络环境可能会助长网络攻击和网络欺凌行为。
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