Cyberpsychology Research Articles

The role of cyber psychology in preventing extremism

The efforts of researchers began in the field of: psychology, sociology, anthropology. we talk about new concepts and keys in explaining extremism and the reasons for its escalation, in order to negate the idea that belonging to these groups are criminals and have criminal precedents. These studies came out with the need to search for other causes and factors that explain the transformation of a percentage of young people belonging to this ideology from the ideal dreamy psychological desire and the future for life and well-being. To the desire for extremism, murder and suicide. As well as searching for them in the digital world, which is the focus of their meetings and interactions in order to develop plans for their future terrorist projects. This article aims to clarify the role that cyber psychology can play in preventing extremism, especially as it is a science concerned with the impact of the Internet and cyberspace on human behavior and social networks, and the extent to which psychologists are able to provide assistance within the digital environment. It is interested in studying the impact of technology and modern communication technology on the individual with the study of the following issues: cyber suicide, cyber addiction, cyber terrorism and cyber-crime. We will also try to compare some concepts related to cyberspace: cybersecurity and information security. Keywords: cyber-Psychology; Protection; Extremism; Electronic Suicide; Cyber Security; Information Security.

Структурный анализ базовых психологических компонентов функционального комфорта в профессиях субъектно-информационного класса

The article presents the results of the empirical study of functional comfort of workers belonging to a subject-information class of activities (N=543). The authors have revealed qualitative differences of structures in the groups of “traditional” and “virtual organizations”, and no significant differences in the group “inside” virtual organization (“main workplace”, “alternative workplace”). The tendency revealed is explained by the fact that in the context of a virtual organization there is no necessity in the deep integration of the components of functional comfort and in regulatory mechanisms activation. It is due to the current environment conditions and the authors treat it as a positive phenomenon, necessary and valid mechanism forming functional comfort of virtual organization workers. The authors outlined the prospects for research of human activities in a brand new sphere of national science – cyber psychology.

Структурный анализ базовых психологических компонентов функционального комфорта в профессиях субъектно-информационного класса

The article presents the results of the empirical study of functional comfort of workers belonging to a subject-information class of activities (N=543). The authors have revealed qualitative differences of structures in the groups of “traditional” and “virtual organizations”, and no significant differences in the group “inside” virtual organization (“main workplace”, “alternative workplace”). The tendency revealed is explained by the fact that in the context of a virtual organization there is no necessity in the deep integration of the components of functional comfort and in regulatory mechanisms activation. It is due to the current environment conditions and the authors treat it as a positive phenomenon, necessary and valid mechanism forming functional comfort of virtual organization workers. The authors outlined the prospects for research of human activities in a brand new sphere of national science – cyber psychology.

Exploring the Influence of Technology, Lifestyle and Flexible Working Arrangements on Cyber Psychology among Employees at a Malaysian Investment Holding Company

This study explores the relationship between cyberpsychology and its influencing factors among employees at an investment holding company (which will be addressed as XYZ Berhad). Understanding the impact of technology, lifestyle, and flexible working arrangements on employees' psychological well-being and behavior is crucial in today's digital workplace. With the prevalence of remote work and flexible arrangements, it becomes essential to examine how these factors influence employees' cyberpsychology experiences. Using a quantitative correlational approach, data was collected from 123 participants out of a total employee population of 174 at XYZ Berhad. The survey utilized Likert scale items to assess respondents' perspectives on technology usage, lifestyle choices, flexible working arrangements, and cyberpsychology. The findings reveal significant relationships between cyberpsychology and the influencing factors. Technology has a strong positive relationship, indicating its substantial impact on employees' psychological well-being and work behaviors. Similarly, lifestyle choices show a moderate positive relationship, highlighting the relevance of personal lifestyle preferences in shaping cyberpsychological experiences. Additionally, flexible working arrangement displays a medium positive relationship, underscoring the importance of work arrangements in influencing employees' psychological responses. The study recommends implementing awareness programs to help employees manage the psychological effects of technology usage and promoting the usage of online communication platforms to foster a positive organizational culture. Guidelines for employees working under flexible arrangements are advised to support their well-being and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Аналитическое осмысление студентами вуза понятия «информационный иммунитет личности»: педагогический аспект

Importance. The problematic field of students’ information security development in modern society actualized the integration of existing methodological approaches and the search for technologies within which complex researches of ways to solve emerging problems are possible. In the science and practice of pedagogical education, knowledge about the essence and structure of information immunity as a personal quality becomes relevant and in demand. The purpose of the research is a comparative analysis of the opinion of university students on the essence of the concept of “information immunity”, its features in the context of changing digital reality. Research Methods. The research is carried out on the system, environmental, integrative and personal-activity approaches integration basis. The following research methods were used: analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature, comparison, generalization, systematization, survey of first and second year Derzhavin Tambov State University various training program students. The sample consisted of 119 students. Results and Discussion. It is revealed that students’ general idea of about the necessity of this personality characteristic, about the prerequisites for its formation, knowledge, capabilities, skills that determine the safe and comfortable functioning of a person in a modern information society (working with information, digital communication, information security, cyber psychology), largely echoes the opinion of philosophers teachers, psychologists, sociologists, lawyers interested in the genesis of “information immunity” concept. The results of the survey also indicate disagreements both on the issue of such characteristics’ causal relationship between the emergence as individual information culture and information immunity, as well with regard to the optimal age for their development. Conclusion. The obtained theoretical results provide additional material for concretizing the subordination of the concepts of “information culture”, “information security”, “individual information immunity”, interpreting the essence of the latter, highlighting its content and functional components, the criteria base for assessing the development of information immunity level.

ROLE OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY IN CYBER INVESTIGATION

This paper focuses on the application of forensic psychology tools in cyber investigation and tries to light on cyber forensic equipment. The internet helped us greater in communiqué and all similar trends. Except for those features, the digital global has extended its hands to unlawful activities. We can't blame technology for crimes, it is all about who is using it. Cybercrimes is likewise about the maladaptive behaviour of human and Disrupted existence. In cybercrime investigations analysing human behaviour is inevitable. Cyber psychology is interdisciplinary vicinity wherein behavioural science and cyber technology merge. Exceptional forensic tools are used in the cyber investigation are autopsy, O.S. forensic toolkit, RAM forensics, TrueCrypt, DFF, and Wireshark, etc. Cyber-crook behaviour may be analysed via the utility of forensic psychology strategies. Forensic psychology investigation tools are applicable in cybercrimes as well. Cyber-criminal behaviour can be analysed through the application of forensic psychology techniques. It can be utilized for the identification, and authentication of the perpetrator who has executed cybercrime or to show his innocence. Deception detection techniques are very beneficial to screen those criminals who've been committed cybercrimes. Criminal profiling and Geographical profiling will plot the personality picture of the cyber offender.

Hashtag war: 2019 Presidential election rhetoric in Indonesia

Twitter as a social media has become increasingly used, including by its use by each Presidential candidate’s stronghold to launch a campaign to influence prospective voters’ electoral decisions in the 2019 Presidential Election in Indonesia. One strategy used in such a campaign on Twitter was by disseminating hashtags that were expected to become trending topics on Twitter. The dissemination of these hashtags aimed to build political rhetoric that can influence prospective voters’ electoral decisions. Thus, this study sought to explore the patterns of hashtags disseminated by each candidate’s stronghold to build political rhetoric and find out public sentiments in the posted Twitter contents. The number of tweets with #Jokowi2Periode and #2019GantiPresiden hashtags during the period of the 2019 Indonesian presidential and vice-presidential debates that were successfully downloaded using MAXQDA 18.1.1 software was 92,276. The research findings revealed that the distribution pattern of the #Jokowi2Periode hashtag tended to be more scattered (decentralized) by relying on the actor’s presentation and the actor’s speed in responding to tweets. In contrast, the spread of the #2019GantiPresiden hashtag was more centralized by relying on communication channels on Twitter. These two distribution patterns are discussed with the perspective of cyber psychology, through cues-filtered-in and cues-filtered-out theories.

Editorial: A breakthrough year for Cyberpsychology: More citations, more submissions – and more impact

Editorial: A breakthrough year for Cyberpsychology: More citations, more submissions – and more impact

Editorial: Cyberpsychology has readers from 192 countries

Editorial: Cyberpsychology has readers from 192 countries

Cyber psychology and cyber behaviour of adolescents-the need of the contemporary era

Cyber psychology is also addressed as Internet psychology or web psychology. In the modern era it is gaining momentum as a field, as more and more people are embracing the virtual world. Changing lifestyles and a constant digital presence is impacting the minds of millions of youngsters as the average amount of time spent on the internet increases rapidly. Youngsters are spending a lot of time online-chatting with their friends through social networks, playing online games with their peers, and shopping products online. As the individual need for recognition and self actualisation grows, youngsters are trying to form and establish identities online. This hunger for appreciation, coupled with long hours spent online are paving way for several problems regarding the health and well being of the adolescents. This manuscript proposes a research framework which will enable classification of adolescents as Expressive, Impatient, Connected, Impersonal, and Knowledgeable, based on their social media presence.

“A window into shock, pain, and attempted recovery”: A decade of blogging as a coping strategy in New Orleans

Interviews with bloggers examine the ongoing use of blogs to cope with the persistent community stress New Orleans has experienced post-Hurricane Katrina. Previously, the field of media studies has overlooked blogs’ coping role. Cyber psychology has explored blogs’ role in individual and emotional coping, but not task-oriented efforts to ameliorate sources of community stress. Among other insights, the unique intersection of media studies and cyber psychology explored in this study illuminates the double-edged sword that is the imagined audience. While a positive source of social support, efforts to attract and maintain an audience can impose the perceived pressure to “keep face” and maintain an angry blogging persona beyond its useful cathartic value. Combining perspectives from cyber psychology and media studies, this study contributes a more multifaceted understanding of how residents may use social media to cope with individual and community stress than has been explored in previous research.

Editorial: Cyberpsychology has more submissions and citations

Editorial: Cyberpsychology has more submissions and citations

Cyberpsychology and new media: a thematic reader

Cyberpsychology and new media: a thematic reader

Growing From Childhood into Adolescence

In this theoretical review paper, the authors discuss five important issues about the science of cyber behavior as a field of scientific research. First, they argue that the science of cyber behavior as a field of research is entering its adolescence after growing from its childhood, but before spearheading into its adulthood. The paper reviews the current understanding of human behavior in general and state that behavior sciences have generated extensive knowledge about human behavior theoretically, empirically, and methodologically across multiple disciplines. Next, the authors focus on cyber communication as an example to illustrate current knowledge about various types of cyber behaviors. They showcase exemplary research programs on cyber behavior in four disciplines of behavioral sciences, social psychology, cognitive psychology, communication studies, and sociology. Finally, the paper outlines future research programs in five major directions for further development of the field. Taking the opportunity to commemorate the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning, the authors attempt to draw the first sketch of the science of cyber behavior from the perspective of history of science.

The 14th Annual CyberTherapy & CyberPsychology Conference

The 14th Annual CyberTherapy & CyberPsychology Conference

'I' and 'other' in online interactions: intersubjectivity as a social bridge.

The aim of this work is to propose Intersubjectivity as a key concept in a social interpretation of online dynamics while studying CyberPsychology and its applications. Dialogue is the inner soul of the Self, considered as "a dynamic multiplicity of voiced positions." The link between the Self and the Others must be considered too. Through dialogue, interlocutors negotiate both ideas and their self-images. Starting from 'single' intentions (a representation of what each participant wants to present outside), interactions support a co-construction of shared and linked images of interlocutors, called Subjectivities. These two or more Subjectivities are the basis of the Intersubjective dimension of an interaction.

Psychology and the internet: a social ecological analysis.

This paper proposes a research strategy based on a social ecological analysis of the Internet and its psychological impact as an option to generate original research to answer the follow ing question: What is the psycho-environmental meaning of the Internet? This paper has two objectives: first, to analyze Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) linked to the use of the Internet from a social ecological approach, and second, to propose some relationships among variables from a social ecological perspective, which can help to clarify the variability and magnitude of the psychosocial effect associated with the Internet. This article is divided into three sections. The first briefly describes the origins and development of the Internet. It identifies some technological features and specifies some of the cutting-edge breakthroughs that have facilitated its expansion. The second section proposes a conceptual scheme from the social ecological perspective, which analyzes the subject-environmental binomial associated with the Internet. It identifies the basic assumption, the conceptual richness, and possibilities for research on the Internet, using a social ecological approach. Finally, the last section describes the scope and limitations of this perspective, and discusses its heuristic utility for the development and consolidation of a new area in psychological research: "digital psychology or cyber psychology."