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@article{198106,
        author = {Sanskriti ahuja},
        title = {Impact of Violent Social Media Content on Aggression and Trolling Behaviour in Young Adults},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {13880-13888},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=198106},
        abstract = {According to recent studies, heightened interaction with social communication sites has greatly affected the behavior of young adults, especially through constant viewing of violent and aggressive content online. This has sparked worries about how it might influence people’s emotional control, aggression levels, and ways of interacting online. The current research seeks to explore how viewing violent content on social communication site impacts aggressive behavior and trolling among young adults. A group of 100 young adults (comprising both males and females) aged from 18 to 25 years was selected through purposive sampling. Participants underwent evaluation using the Content-based Media Exposure Scale (C-ME2) to gauge their exposure to violent social communication site content, as well as the Global Assessment of Internet Trolling–Revised (GAIT-R) to measure their aggressive and trolling tendencies.
Statistical methods employed included paired-sample t-tests, correlation analysis, partial correlation, and regression analysis. The study’s findings show that although participants indicated significant exposure to violent social communication site content, this exposure did not establish a statistically significant link to overall aggressive behavior. Correlation and regression analyses indicated that violent content exposure alone did not reliably predict aggressive behavior among young adults. Yet, descriptive trends hinted that those with higher exposure to violent social communication site content were more prone to display aggression through online actions like trolling. Hypothesis testing revealed that, while a direct link between exposure to violent content and general aggression was unsupported, exposure had a stronger correlation with online displays of aggression, especially trolling behavior. The conclusions drawn suggest that violent content on social communication site doesn’t always lead to visible aggressive behaviors but may affect how aggression is shown in digital settings. The study emphasizes the situational aspects of aggression in online environments and highlights the need for media literacy, emotional control, and careful social communication site use among young adults.},
        keywords = {Violent social communication site content, aggression, trolling behaviour, young adults, online aggression.},
        month = {April},
        }