Learning to hate? Exploring long-term effects of adolescents’
cyberhate exposure

k 2025

Learning to hate? Exploring long-term effects of adolescents’ cyberhate exposure

JAROŇ BEDROŠOVÁ, Marie; Vojtěch MÝLEK a Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Learning to hate? Exploring long-term effects of adolescents’ cyberhate exposure

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JAROŇ BEDROŠOVÁ, Marie ; Vojtěch MÝLEK a Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ

Vydání

MediaPsych 2025 : 14th Conference of the Media Psychology Division, Duisburg, Germany, 2025

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

50802 Media and socio-cultural communication

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/25:00142128

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

cyberhate; social learning; desensitisation; adolcents; longitudinal

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 23. 3. 2026 16:12, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

Adolescents are increasingly exposed to cyberhate—online hate speech and biased content (Kardefelt Winther et al., 2023; Machackova et al., 2020), raising concerns about its long-term psychological and behavioural consequences. While existing research highlights the harmful effects (Jaron Bedrosova et al., 2024), the processes through which frequent exposure influences psychological and behavioural outcomes remain underexplored. To address this gap, we adopt desensitisation and social learning frameworks (Allen et al., 2018; Anderson & Bushman, 2002; Bandura, 1978) to shed more light on these mechanisms. Prior research with adults links short-term cyberhate exposure to desensitisation (Soral et al., 2018, 2023), but long-term effects and effects on adolescents are less understood. Yet adolescents’ identity and intergroup attitudes are developing (Cortese, 2005) and may be shaped by frequent exposure to cyberhate’s biased messages. Testing the desensitisation assumption, we investigate whether frequent cyberhate exposure increases adolescents’ moral disengagement (i.e., minimising consequences of cyberaggressive incidents). Further, youth cyberhate exposure has been cross-sectionally linked to perpetration (Wachs & Wright, 2018; Wachs et al., 2021). Adopting the social learning theory, we investigate whether frequent exposure fosters learned cyberhate behaviours in the form of cyberhate aggression. We also explore whether moral disengagement mediates this association. We will use longitudinal online survey data from 3,087 Czech adolescents (ages 11-16, M=13.47, SD=1.74; 50.1% boys) collected over four waves, six months apart, in 2021-2022. We used quota sampling to ensure (1) that included households represent Czech households with children in terms of SES, region, and municipality size, and (2) balanced age and gender groups. We measured cyberhate exposure and perpetration using two single-item measures and moral disengagement using a four-item scale (adapted from Garland et al., 2016). We will test within-person longitudinal effects between these variables using the random intercept cross-lagged panel model (Hamaker et al., 2015).

Návaznosti

CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004583, interní kód MU
(Kód CEP: EH22_008/0004583)

Název: Excelentní výzkum v oblasti digitálních technologií a wellbeingu

Investor: Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy ČR, Excelentní výzkum v oblasti digitálních technologií a wellbeingu, Priorita 1 - Výzkum a vývoj

EH22_008/0004583, projekt VaV

Název: Excelentní výzkum v oblasti digitálních technologií a wellbeingu

Přiložené soubory

mediapsych2025_jaron_bedrosova.pdf

Citovat

JAROŇ BEDROŠOVÁ, Marie; Vojtěch MÝLEK a Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ. Learning to hate? Exploring long-term effects of adolescents’ cyberhate exposure. In MediaPsych 2025 : 14th Conference of the Media Psychology Division, Duisburg, Germany. 2025.

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JAROŇ BEDROŠOVÁ, Marie; Vojtěch MÝLEK a Hana MACHÁČKOVÁ. Learning to hate? Exploring long-term effects of adolescents’ cyberhate exposure. In \textit{MediaPsych 2025 : 14th Conference of the Media Psychology Division, Duisburg, Germany}. 2025.

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