신상털기의 실증연구에서 원인 및 기회증폭과 통제요인들의 통합작용 모색

An Empirical Explanation of Internet Public Disembowelling by Integrating Causes, Opportunity, and Control Factors

This study constructs an integrated model and tests it for explaining internet public disembowelling through not only causes, but also opportunity and control factors. This study includes four causal factors such as attitude toward internet public disembowelling, sense of authority, group subculture, and curiosity/fun, three opportunity factors such as anonymity, internet techniques, and netizen s cooperation, and three control factors such as self-control, perceived formal punishment, and informal social control. This study surveys 241 university students in Seoul and finds that attitude toward internet public disembowelling, curiosity and fun, and group subculture have significant influences on internet public disembowelling, but th effect of sense of authority is not significant. Results show that for interaction effects between causal and opportunity factors, attitude toward internet public disembowelling has significant interaction effects with anonymity, internet techniques, and netizen s cooperation, and curiosity/fun has also significant interaction effects with internet techniques, and netizen s cooperation. It is also found that for interaction effects between causal and control factors, attitude toward internet public disembowelling has significant interaction effects with self-control, and group subculture has also significant interaction effects with the perceived formal punishment. Overall, theses results support this study s hypotheses.