Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Aggress Behav. 2021 Jan;47(1):111-119. doi: 10.1002/ab.21923. Epub 2020 Aug 27.
The Barlett Gentile cyberbullying model (BGCM) posits that correlated anonymity perceptions and the belief in the irrelevance of muscularity for online bullying (BIMOB) predict positive cyberbullying attitudes to predict subsequent cyberbullying perpetration. Much research has shown the BGCM to be the only published theory that differentiates traditional and cyberbullying while validly predicting cyberbullying. So far, however, the cross-cultural ubiquity has gone understudied. Thus, 1,592 adult participants across seven countries (USA, Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, and Singapore) completed measures germane to the BGCM. Supporting the BGCM, the variables were significantly correlated for the entire sample, participants from independent cultures, and participants from interdependent cultures. However, the relationship between BIMOB and positive cyberbullying attitudes as well as the relationship between positive cyberbullying attitudes and cyberbullying perpetration were stronger for independent cultures. These results suggest that the BGCM postulates are mostly universal, but several relations appear to be culturally different. Theoretical implications are discussed.
巴利特-金蒂尔网络欺凌模型（BGCM）提出，相关的匿名感知和对肌肉力量在网络欺凌中无关紧要的信念（BIMOB）预测积极的网络欺凌态度，从而预测随后的网络欺凌行为。大量研究表明，BGCM 是唯一一种能够区分传统欺凌和网络欺凌并有效预测网络欺凌行为的已发表理论。然而，迄今为止，跨文化普遍性还没有得到充分研究。因此，来自 7 个国家（美国、澳大利亚、巴西、中国、德国、日本和新加坡）的 1592 名成年参与者完成了与 BGCM 相关的测量。支持 BGCM 的是，对于整个样本、来自独立文化的参与者和来自相互依存文化的参与者，这些变量之间存在显著的相关性。然而，对于独立文化的参与者来说，BIMOB 与积极的网络欺凌态度之间的关系以及积极的网络欺凌态度与网络欺凌行为之间的关系更为密切。这些结果表明，BGCM 的假设在很大程度上是普遍的，但有几个关系似乎在文化上有所不同。理论意义进行了讨论。
