The cycle of toxicity: Exploring relationships between personality and player roles in toxic beha...
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Mixed methods work uses autoethnography and 13 interviews to map how roles shift during single MOBA matches and then tests hypotheses with a survey n = 216 and SEM path modeling. Results show toxicity roles strongly overlap and predict one another, indicating a cycle of retaliation; extraversion increases perpetration while openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness reduce it. Findings specify numbers, tools, and mechanisms rather than broad labels and point to bystander failure and role fluidity as concrete intervention targets.
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