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Abstract：
Malicious online trolling is prevalent among Chinese college students and has recently garnered extensive attention from researchers due to the substantial harm it causes to the victims and the damage it inflicts on the online environment. Most previous studies have focused on examining how personal traits related to malicious online trolling. Further comprehensive research is needed to explore the mechanisms linking external environmental factors (antisocial media exposure) and malicious online trolling. A total of 1259 Chinese college students completed questionnaires regarding malicious online trolling, antisocial media exposure, hostile attribution bias, and empathy. The results indicated a positive association between antisocial media exposure and malicious online trolling among Chinese college students, with hostile attribution bias serving as a mediating factor. Furthermore, the direct and mediated paths between antisocial media exposure and malicious online trolling were moderated by empathy. Specifically, as the level of empathy increased among college students, the relations between the variables all weakened. Excessive exposure to antisocial media content among college students may trigger hostile attribution bias and lead to more malicious online trolling behavior. However, the relation between antisocial media exposure and malicious online trolling, hostile attribution bias and malicious online trolling, was attenuated when college students\' empathy levels were high.
摘要：
恶意网络巨魔在中国大学生中普遍存在，由于其对受害者造成的重大伤害以及对网络环境的破坏，最近引起了研究人员的广泛关注。以前的大多数研究都集中在研究个人特征与恶意在线巨魔的关系。需要进一步的全面研究来探索将外部环境因素（反社会媒体曝光）与恶意在线巨魔联系起来的机制。共有1259名中国大学生完成了有关恶意在线拖钓的问卷调查，反社会媒体曝光，敌意归因偏差，和同理心。结果表明，在中国大学生中，反社交媒体曝光与恶意在线巨魔之间存在正相关。敌意归因偏差是一个中介因素。此外，反社交媒体曝光和恶意在线巨魔之间的直接和中介路径受到同理心的调节。具体来说,随着大学生同理心水平的提高，变量之间的关系都减弱了。大学生过度接触反社交媒体内容可能会引发敌意归因偏见，并导致更多恶意的在线巨魔行为。然而,反社交媒体曝光和恶意在线巨魔之间的关系，敌对的归因偏见和恶意的在线巨魔，当大学生的同理心水平较高时，会减弱。
