How Much Do Adolescents Cybergossip? Scale Development and Validation in Spain and Colombia

Frontiers in Psychology
Eva M RomeraRosario Del Rey

Abstract

Cybergossip is the act of two or more people making evaluative comments via digital devices about somebody who is not present. This cyberbehavior affects the social group in which it occurs and can either promote or hinder peer relationships. Scientific studies that assess the nature of this emerging and interactive behavior in the virtual world are limited. Some research on traditional gossip has identified it as an inherent and defining element of indirect relational aggression. This paper adopts and argues for a wider definition of gossip that includes positive comments and motivations. This work also suggests that cybergossip has to be measured independently from traditional gossip due to key differences when it occurs through ICT. This paper presents the Colombian and Spanish validation of theCybergossip Questionnaire for Adolescents(CGQ-A), involving 3,747 high school students (M= 13.98 years old,SD= 1.69; 48.5% male), of which 1,931 were Colombian and 1,816 were Spanish. Test models derived from item response theory, confirmatory factor analysis, content validation, and multi-group analysis were run on the full sample and subsamples for each country and both genders. The obtained optimal fit and psychometric properties c...Continue Reading

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Jul 8, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Dennis Sing-Wing Wong, Sai-Fu Fung
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