Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effects of online and offline social capital on the relationship between narcissism and aggression among university students. The survey was conducted from October 29, 2019 to January 10, 2020 by giving a self-reporting questionnaire to university students in Seoul and the metropolitan area in a random sampling manner. The data set was collected from 76 offline and 312 online survey questionnaires. Of these, 384 cases were used for the final data analysis for this study, excluding four cases which were invalid since the respondents did not use social media. For the analysis of research data, reliability analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, and univariate analysis were used and moderating effects were tested by using SPSS 27 and AMOS 27. Narcissism predicted significant higher overt aggression. Online bridging social capital had a moderating effect between the narcissism and verbal aggression, which is a sub-factor of aggression and total aggression. Online bonding social capital had a moderating effect between the narcissism and physical aggression and verbal aggression, which are sub-factors of aggression and total aggression. Offline bonding social capital had a moderating effect between narcissism and hostility, which is a sub-factor of aggression.

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