Understanding the role of social factors in cyberbullying at Workplace

This study examines how two social factors (perceived social injustice and social dominance orientation) relate to the likelihood of cyberbullying. Online experiments involving 12 hypothesized social injustice scenarios in the work place tested the impact of these two social factors on the likelihood of cyberbullying across adult samples drawn from two countries (USA and China). Results revealed that (a) perceived distributive injustice positively predicts the likelihood of cyberbullying; (b) social dominance orientation negatively predicts three types of perceived social injustice; (c) and social dominance orientation positively predicts the likelihood of cyberbullying. The analyses revealed only one significant difference between results from the USA versus Chinese samples. These findings indicate that social factors (social injustice and social dominance orientation) can influence cyberbullying dynamics across multiple nationalities.

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This study examines the relationship between social factors (perceived social injustice and social dominance orientation) and the likelihood of cyberbullying. Online experiments with adult samples from the USA and China tested the impact of these factors on cyberbullying likelihood using hypothetical social injustice scenarios in the workplace. The results show that perceived distributive injustice positively predicts cyberbullying likelihood, while social dominance orientation negatively predicts perceived social injustice and positively predicts cyberbullying likelihood. There was only one significant difference between the USA and Chinese samples. These findings suggest that social factors can influence cyberbullying dynamics across different nationalities.