Romera Eva M, Herrera-López Mauricio, Casas José A, Ortega Ruiz Rosario, Del Rey Rosario
Department of Psychology, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain.
Department of Psychology, Universidad de Nariño, San Juan de Pasto, Colombia.
Front Psychol. 2018 Feb 12;9:126. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00126. eCollection 2018.
Cybergossip is the act of two or more people making evaluative comments via digital devices about somebody who is not present. This cyberbehavior affects the social group in which it occurs and can either promote or hinder peer relationships. Scientific studies that assess the nature of this emerging and interactive behavior in the virtual world are limited. Some research on traditional gossip has identified it as an inherent and defining element of indirect relational aggression. This paper adopts and argues for a wider definition of gossip that includes positive comments and motivations. This work also suggests that cybergossip has to be measured independently from traditional gossip due to key differences when it occurs through ICT. This paper presents the Colombian and Spanish validation of the (CGQ-A), involving 3,747 high school students ( = 13.98 years old, = 1.69; 48.5% male), of which 1,931 were Colombian and 1,816 were Spanish. Test models derived from item response theory, confirmatory factor analysis, content validation, and multi-group analysis were run on the full sample and subsamples for each country and both genders. The obtained optimal fit and psychometric properties confirm the robustness and suitability of a one-dimensional structure for the cybergossip instrument. The multi-group analysis shows that the cybergossip construct is understood similarly in both countries and between girls and boys. The composite reliability ratifies convergent and divergent validity of the scale. Descriptive results show that Colombian adolescents gossip less than their Spanish counterparts and that boys and girls use cybergossip to the same extent. As a conclusion, this study confirmes the relationship between cybergossip and cyberbullying, but it also supports a focus on positive cybergossip in psychoeducational interventions to build positive virtual relationships and prevent risky cyberbehaviors.
网络八卦是指两个或更多人通过数字设备对不在场的某人发表评价性言论的行为。这种网络行为会影响其发生的社会群体，既可能促进同伴关系，也可能阻碍同伴关系。评估虚拟世界中这种新兴互动行为本质的科学研究有限。一些关于传统八卦的研究已将其确定为间接关系攻击的固有且决定性要素。本文采用并主张对八卦进行更宽泛的定义，包括积极的评论和动机。这项研究还表明，由于通过信息通信技术发生时存在关键差异，网络八卦必须与传统八卦分开衡量。本文介绍了对《青少年网络八卦问卷简版》（CGQ - A）在哥伦比亚和西班牙的验证情况，涉及3747名高中生（平均年龄 = 13.98岁，标准差 = 1.69；48.5%为男性），其中1931名是哥伦比亚学生，1816名是西班牙学生。从项目反应理论、验证性因素分析、内容效度和多组分析得出的测试模型在每个国家和性别的全样本及子样本上进行了运算。所获得的最佳拟合度和心理测量特性证实了网络八卦工具一维结构的稳健性和适用性。多组分析表明，两个国家以及男孩和女孩对网络八卦概念的理解相似。组合信度验证了该量表的收敛效度和区分效度。描述性结果表明，哥伦比亚青少年的八卦行为比西班牙青少年少，且男孩和女孩使用网络八卦的程度相同。总之，本研究证实了网络八卦与网络欺凌之间的关系，但也支持在心理教育干预中关注积极的网络八卦，以建立积极的虚拟关系并预防危险的网络行为。
