Browsing by Author "Billieux, Joel"

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Childhood Emotional Abuse and Cyberbullying Perpetration: The Role of Dark Personality Traits
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2021) Kağan Kircaburun; Peter Karl Jonason; Mark D. Griffiths; Engin Aslanargun; Emrah Emirtekin; Şule Betül Tosuntaş; Joël Billieux; Emirtekin, Emrah; Billieux, Joel; Aslanargun, Engin; Kircaburun, Kagan; Jonason, Peter; Griffiths, Mark D.; Tosuntas, Sule B.
Dark personality traits (i.e. Machiavellianism psychopathy narcissism spitefulness and sadism) are associated with adverse childhood experiences and deviant online behaviors. However their mediating role between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying has never previously been investigated. We examined direct and indirect associations of childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying via dark personality traits among 772 participants. Men were better characterized by dark personality traits and were more likely to engage in cyberbullying than women and there were no sex differences in childhood emotional abuse. Collectively dark traits fully mediated the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying in men with partial mediation in the total sample and women. More specifically Machiavellianism and spitefulness were mediators in both samples sadism was a mediator in men and the total sample and psychopathy was a mediator in the total sample and women. The dark personality traits can account for the association between childhood emotional abuse and cyberbullying especially among men. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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The role of childhood emotional maltreatment and body image dissatisfaction in problematic smartphone use among adolescents
(ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD, 2019) Emrah Emirtekin; Sabah Balta; Irfan Sural; Kagan Kircaburun; Mark D. Griffiths; Joel Billieux; Sural, İrfan; Kircaburun, Kagan; Emirtekin, Emrah; Balta, Sabah; Billieux, Joel; Griffiths, Mark D.
Growing empirical evidence has identified specific psychological and contextual risk factors associated with problematic smartphone use (PSU). However the potential direct and indirect impact of childhood emotional maltreatment (CEM) on PSU remains largely unexplored despite the established role of CEM in the onset of other excessive problematic and addictive behaviors. Consequently the purpose of the present study was to test the direct and indirect relationships of emotional abuse and neglect (two facets of CEM) with PSU via specific mediational pathways including body image dissatisfaction (BID) social anxiety and depression. The sample comprised 443 adolescents who completed a questionnaire that included assessment tools of aforementioned variables. Multiple mediation model results indicated that CEM was directly and indirectly associated with PSU via BID depression BID-related depression and BID-related social anxiety. Results suggested that emotionally traumatic experiences were associated with PSU in adolescents and that this relationship may partially be explained by BID and psychosocial risk factors. The present study draws caution to the amplifying roles of CEM and BID on increased PSU. The results of the study have important clinical and public health implications but additional research is needed before interventions can be developed and implemented on the basis of present results.