Title: Effects of Experiencing Bullying and Being Bullied, and the Dark Triad on the Cognition of Bullying Victims’ Culpability
Stream: General Psychology
Presentation Type: Virtual Poster Presentation
Authors:
Takashi Hori, Konan University, Japan
Satoko Koyama, Saku Mental Clinic, Japan
Yoshikazu Fukui, Konan University, Japan
Abstract:
The cognition of bullying victims’ culpability corresponds to the cognition that bullying victims are also responsible for being bullied, which is a factor hindering the resolution of bullying. The Dark Triad consisting of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism, is assumed to be related to that cognition. Therefore, this study examined the effects of the Dark Triad on the conscious and nonconscious aspects of cognition of bullying victims’ culpability. We used a questionnaire to assess the conscious aspect of the cognition of bullying victims’ culpability and the Implicit Association Test to assess the nonconscious aspect. Adults (N =298) participated in the study. The data partly overlap with a series of previous studies (e.g., Hori et al., 2021). Multiple regression analyses indicated that on the conscious aspect of the cognition of bullying victims’ culpability the main effect of Machiavellianism and the first-order interaction between experience of bullying and narcissism were significant, whereas on the nonconscious aspect the main effect of narcissism and the second-order interaction between experience of bullying, the experience of being bullied, and Machiavellianism were significant. Simple slope tests indicated that the negative effect of narcissism on the conscious aspect of the cognition was significant in the group with experience of bullying only, and that the positive effect of Machiavellianism on the nonconscious aspect was significant in the group without experience of either bullying or being bullied. In contrast, the negative effect of Machiavellianism on the nonconscious aspect was significant in the group with experience of bullying but not the experience of being bullied. These findings indicate that the effect of the Dark Triad on the cognition of bullying victims’ culpability differed in conscious and nonconscious aspects of that cognition. However, these findings were obtained from retrospective research recalling past experiences of bullying and being bullied. Therefore, no causal relationships should be inferred, and caution should be against over-generalization of the results.
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