All roads lead to hate? Examining five prediction paths for online incivility and intolerance perpetration

Autor(en)

Kevin Koban, Stephanie Bührer, Jörg Matthes

Abstrakt

This two-wave panel survey puts five pathways (i.e., antisocial and prosocial personality, intergroup identity conflict, recent victimization experiences, social media habits) against each other to test their unique over-time relationship with digital hate perpetration. Using autoregressive structural equation modeling, psychopathy, need for social approval, and recent victimization emerged as universally relevant for both incivility and intolerance. Notably, recent victimization had the strongest link, highlighting that breaking victimization-perpetration cycles may be key in combating digital hate. Furthermore, Machiavellianism and social media habits selectively predicted online intolerance. All these generally and selectively relevant paths point toward distinct opportunities to reduce aggressive communication.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Journal

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

ISSN

1077-6990

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990261429081

Publikationsdatum

02-2026

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Communication

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/5689e359-b675-4e0b-a7b5-bd53bae3f9eb