"Digital aggression (DA) centers on the use of information communication technologies to inflict harm on others. Although several studies to date have sought to uncover personality traits that predict DA, their findings have been quite mixed. We sought to address these inconsistencies by using real-time, in vivo, and validated questionnaire-based measures of DA. Using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling, we analyzed the associations between latent DA factors of TAP-Chat, Twitter, and Questionnaire with personality traits measured by International Personality Item Pool-Five Factor Model (IPIP-FFM) and Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) in an undergraduate sample (total N = 1,167 across the two samples). Low conscientiousness and high negative emotionality predicted all three DA factors, but other personality predictors were specific to particular assessments of DA and did not persist across the various measures of DA. Such findings suggest that the personality correlates of DA are more or less predictive across different contexts, highlighting potentially important differences within the broader construct of DA."--Page ii.
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