I'm just trolling: The role of normative beliefs in aggressive behaviour in online gaming

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Highlights：

• Gamers found aggression more acceptable and tolerable when it occurs online, compared to offline.

• Normative beliefs about cyberaggression predicted cyberaggressive behaviour.

• Normative beliefs partially mediated the pathway between age and gender with cyberaggression.

摘要

•Gamers found aggression more acceptable and tolerable when it occurs online, compared to offline.•Normative beliefs about cyberaggression predicted cyberaggressive behaviour.•Normative beliefs partially mediated the pathway between age and gender with cyberaggression.

论文关键词：Cyberaggression,Cyberbullying,Online gaming,Normative beliefs

论文评审过程：Received 21 January 2019, Revised 11 August 2019, Accepted 7 September 2019, Available online 12 September 2019, Version of Record 18 September 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.09.003