Trolling and Sleeping

Question 1

Dark personality traits

Answer 1

Psychopathy, Machiavellianism, Sadism, Narcissism

Question 2

Big 5

Answer 2

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism

Question 3

what did the two studies measure

Answer 3

Study 1
- Dark personality traits
- Internet use

Study 2
- Personality traits (dark personality traits + Big 5)
- Internet use + items related to trolling

Question 4

findings and limits for study 1

Answer 4

Dark personality traits were highest among those who reported that trolling was their favourite thing to do online
- Did not give definition for “trolling”
- asked participants to select their favourite activity from a list of options. This necessitated a categorical index of trolling that likely underestimated the effects.

Question 5

findings and limits study 2

Answer 5

Sadism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism scores were positively correlated with self-reported enjoyment of trolling, even when controlling for overall Internet use
- People who scored higher on dark personality traits are more likely to participate in trolling

Question 6

limitations of self-report

Answer 6

• ot feeling comfortable responding
• May lie to better present themselves
• May not have insight into own behaviour
• The way people think they will act is not always the same as the way they actually act
• May not understand the questions
  
  • Eg: griefing
• Participants and researchers may have different opinions about what is included in the construct the self-report survey is trying to tap into

Question 7

what had the most robust association with trolling

Answer 7

sadism
- when controlling for enjoyment, impact on trolling was cut in half.

Question 8

negatively related to trolling?

Answer 8

Narcissism

Question 9

associated with anti-sociality?

Answer 9

excessive internet use

Question 10

FOMO

Answer 10

“a general state of anxiety at missing out on rewarding experiences, often driving social media engagement”

Question 11

Research questions:

Answer 11

• Does FOMO lead to increased nighttime social media use → later bedtimes?
• Does FOMO lead to increased nighttime social media use → more cognitive arousal → longer to fall asleep?

Question 12

FINDINGS

Answer 12

FOMO predicted social media use → later bedtime (displacement theory)

• Irregardless of use, FOMO is always linked to cognitive arousal

Question 13

age group

Answer 13

12-18

Question 14

Results

Answer 14

Nighttime social media use was associated with later bedtimes, increased pre-sleep cognitive arousal, longer sleep onset latency and shorter sleep duration

Question 15

2 distinct mechanisms

Answer 15

1. at a behavioural level, by driving late night social media use, which delays bedtimes
2. at a cognitive level, by increasing pre-sleep cognitive arousal, thus further delaying sleep onset.

Question 16

Conclusions

Answer 16

Efforts to develop and evaluate intervention strategies should therefore consider not only social media behaviours but also underlying cognitive factors, such as fear of missing out.

Question 17

who used more social media at night

Answer 17

ppl with higher levels of FOMO

Question 18

LIMITATIONS

Answer 18

Small sample size
- Self-report
—- did not ask Ps about weekday and weekend habits separately