Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Elche, Spain.
National Distance Education University, Madrid, Spain.
J Interpers Violence. 2022 Jul;37(13-14):NP11223-NP11241. doi: 10.1177/0886260521991307. Epub 2021 Feb 5.
New technologies bring new forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) or abuse, such as cyber intimate partner violence (C-IPV). This is a contemporary issue with different consequences from in-person IPV. C-IPV is a complex phenomenon triggered by a number of factors, including personality traits such as the Dark Tetrad, composed of four "malevolent" qualities: subclinical narcissism, Machiavellianism, subclinical psychopathy, and everyday sadism. The Dark Tetrad plays an important role in predicting the perpetration or victimization of the resulting pervasive behaviors. Although the correlations between in-person IPV and the Dark Tetrad have been studied before, to our knowledge this investigation is the first to look at the links between these four dark personality traits and C-IPV. With a sample of 1,189 participants, we measured C-IPV victimization and perpetration rates and compared the results with the Dark Tetrad profiles of the respondents. To analyze these correlations, we conducted bivariate analysis and structural equation modeling. The analysis yielded positive relations of psychopathy and narcissism with cyber controlling behaviors. Psychopathy was found to be strongly related with direct cyber aggression behaviors; sadism was mainly related with C-IPV victimization in both controlling and direct aggression, and, finally and interestingly, Machiavellianism presented negative correlations with direct cyber aggression. Remarkable is that joining sadistic personalities increased vulnerability to victimization from C-IPV direct aggression, as well as more psychopathic traits and an increased probability of perpetration. These combinations may create dangerous situations. In conclusion, we found that both C-IPV perpetrators and victims present higher scores in the dark personality traits and gender-based differences than in-person IPV actors.
新技术带来了新形式的亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）或虐待，例如网络亲密伴侣暴力（C-IPV）。这是一个具有不同后果的当代问题，与面对面的 IPV 不同。C-IPV 是由多种因素引发的复杂现象，包括人格特质，如黑暗四天王，由四个“邪恶”特质组成：亚临床自恋、马基雅维利主义、亚临床精神病态和日常虐待狂。黑暗四天王在预测由此产生的普遍行为的实施或受害中起着重要作用。虽然之前已经研究了面对面的 IPV 与黑暗四天王之间的相关性，但据我们所知，这项调查是第一次研究这四个黑暗人格特质与 C-IPV 之间的联系。我们对 1189 名参与者进行了调查，测量了 C-IPV 的受害率和实施率，并将结果与受访者的黑暗四天王特征进行了比较。为了分析这些相关性，我们进行了双变量分析和结构方程模型分析。分析结果表明，精神病态和自恋与网络控制行为呈正相关。精神病态与直接网络攻击行为密切相关；虐待狂主要与控制和直接攻击中的 C-IPV 受害有关，最后，有趣的是，马基雅维利主义与直接网络攻击呈负相关。值得注意的是，加入虐待狂人格会增加受害者直接受到 C-IPV 攻击的脆弱性，以及更多的精神病态特征和实施的可能性增加。这些组合可能会造成危险的情况。总之，我们发现 C-IPV 的实施者和受害者在黑暗人格特质和基于性别的差异方面的得分都高于面对面的 IPV 行为者。
