Digital shadow of childhood trauma: Associations between childhood maltreatment, moral disengagement, and online aggressive behavior in college students

Figure 1 Mediating model of childhood maltreatment, moral disengagement, and online aggressive behavior. ^bP < 0.01, all coefficients were standardized. Childhood maltreatment 1-5 were physical neglect, emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse; moral disengagement 1-8 were moral justification, euphemistic language, advantageous comparison, displacement of responsibility, diffusion of responsibility, distortion of consequences, attribution of blame, and dehumanization. OAB: Online aggressive behavior; Childhood maltreatment; MD: Moral disengagement.