Proceedings of the 2024 8th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2024)

The Effect of Perceived Anonymity on Cyberbullying

The Mediating Role of Online Disinhibition and the Moderating Role of Mindfulness

Authors
Zhenyu Zhao1, *
1Psychology, LSA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48104, USA
*Corresponding author. Email: zhao_zhenyu@umich.edu
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Zhenyu Zhao
Available Online 31 October 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-297-2_104How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Cyberbullying; Perceived Anonymity; Online Disinhibition; Mindfulness
Abstract

As a worldwide social problem, cyberbullying has received extensive attention from scholars. Cyberbullying has more diverse manifestations than traditional forms of bullying, including exclusion, cyberstalking, and doxxing, which negatively impact the mental health of the victim. This study explores the factors influencing cyberbullying from the perspective of perceived anonymity. A total of 317 valid subjects participated in this study, and completed the Perceived Anonymity Questionnaire, the Cyber De-Inhibition Questionnaire, the Cyberbullying Questionnaire, and the Mindfulness Questionnaire in turn. The results show that: First, perceived anonymity enhances individuals’ cyberbullying; Second, perceived anonymity enhances online disinhibition and thus increases an individual’s cyberbullying behavior, whereas Mindfulness reduces or inhibits the positive influence of perceived anonymity on cyberbullying.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2024 8th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2024)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 October 2024
ISBN
978-2-38476-297-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-297-2_104How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2024 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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