INVESTIGADORES
RESETT Santiago Alejandro
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Título:
Cyberstalking: prediction from dark personality and ICT
Autor/es:
SANTIAGO RESETT; PABLO GONZALEZ; JUAN LÓPEZ; CAROLINA SANZ
Lugar:
Las Vegas
Reunión:
Conferencia; Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy
Resumen:
The present study evaluated the levels of cyberstalking to intimate partners and analyze if dark traits and the use of ICT are predictors of it. Sample: 544 adults, both sexes (64% female) with a mean age of 30.8. All measures were taken by an online battery in the following order: a sociodemographic questionnaire with sex, age and two questions about the use of ICT, amount of smartphone´s hours use per day and daily use of internet, Short Dark Triad Scale and Intimate Partner Cyber Stalking Scale. Instruments showed a .94 Cronbach´s alpha for IPCS scale, ranges between .73 and.84 for the SD3 and a combined score of .73 Cronbach´s alpha for the smartphone use questions. Results showed a mean of 37.20 (SD = 15.74) for Cyberstalking behavior, being with a 30% of an agreement the item "If I suspected my partner was lying I would check their online accounts to help verify my suspicions" and "I have checked my partner?s messages (e.g. e-mail, Facebook, phone) without them knowing" with a 24% of agreement. A structural model was performed to predict the scores of cyberstalking from dark personality traits as the latent exogenous variable, with all the scores for Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism as indicators, and the IPCS scores for smartphones and internet used, showing a very adequate fit (CFI = .99, TLI = .99 and RMSEA = .02). Both paths were significative (p