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troll: a standalone construct

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troll1 CONSTRUCTOnline trollingBUCKELS ET AL · 2014

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Online behaviour research

Posting to provoke an emotional reaction

In online-behaviour research, trolling is deliberately deceptive, disruptive, or inflammatory posting meant to provoke and upset others for the troll's own amusement, pursued with no evident instrumental purpose. Buckels, Trapnell, and Paulhus's 2014 Trolls just want to have fun tied self-reported trolling to the "Dark Tetrad" of personality, especially everyday sadism, establishing it as a measurable behavioural disposition. The referent is a pattern of antisocial online conduct assessed by self-report scales and behavioural traces, unrelated to a fishing method or a folkloric monster except through the metaphor of baiting a reaction.[1]

Unit
Frequency and intensity of provocative online posting
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Measured by self-report trolling scales and their association with dark-personality traits

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References

  1. Buckels, E. E., Trapnell, P. D., & Paulhus, D. L. (2014). Trolls just want to have fun. Personality and Individual Differences, 67, 97–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.016

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