Emotions in Digital Media: Associations between emotion regulation skills, online disinhibition, and uncivil communication (survey study) – Dataset by Aleksi Syrjämäki, Mirja Ilves, Thomas Olsson, Joel Kiskola, Poika Isokoski, Anna Rantasila, Gary Bente, and Veikko Surakka. The data consist of responses to a survey on online and offline behavior. An online survey examined associations between individuals’ emotion regulation skills, online disinhibition, and uncivil communication. Survey respondents reported whether they had engaged in uncivil communication during the past three months, and filled in scales measuring personality, empathy, experienced online disinhibition, difficulties in emotion regulation, and use of different emotion regulation strategies (reappraisal and suppression). Participant (N=215) were recruited using recruitment platform Prolific (Palan and Schitter, 2018). Eleven respondents failed at least in one of the three attention check items included in the survey (Oppenheimer et al., 2009). Uncivil communication was measured using the scale developed by Frischlich et al. (2021). The scale consisted of ten items, all on a 5-point scale (ranging from “Never” to “At least once per day”). Online disinhibition was measured using the Measure of Online Disinhibition (Stuart and Scott, 2021). It consists of 12 items, all evaluated on a 5-point Likert scale. Difficulties in emotion regulation were measured using the brief version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16; Bjureberg et al., 2016). It consists of sixteen items, measured on a 5-point Likert scale. Habitual use of different emotion regulation strategies was measured using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ; Gross and John, 2003). The questionnaire consists of ten items measuring the use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. Personality traits were measured using the Big Five Inventory-10 (Rammstedt and John, 2007). All items are on a 5-point scale. Empathy was measured with the Basic Empathy Scale in Adults (Carré et al., 2013). The questionnaire consists of 20 items, measured on a 5-point scale. The included files are: - Emotion regulation predicts incivility_Survey.pdf – A survey with which the data was collected - Emotion regulation predicts incivility_raw data.xlsx – Table with answers to all questions - Emotion regulation predicts incivility.xlsx – Table with avaraged responses of variables References: Bjureberg, J., Ljótsson, B., Tull, M.T., et al. (2016), ‘Development and Validation of a Brief Version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale: The DERS-16’, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, Vol. 38 No 2, pp. 284–296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-015-9514-x Carré, A., Stefaniak, N., D’Ambrosio, F., et al. (2013), ‘The Basic Empathy Scale in Adults (BES-A): Factor structure of a revised form’, Psychological Assessment, Vol 25 No 3, pp. 679–691. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032297 Frischlich, L., Schatto-Eckrodt, T., Boberg, S., et al. (2021), ‘Roots of Incivility: How Personality, Media Use, and Online Experiences Shape Uncivil Participation’, Media and Communication, Vol 9 No 1, pp. 195–208. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i1.3360 Gross, J.J. and John, O.P. (2003), ‘Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 85 No 2, pp. 348–362. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.85.2.348 Oppenheimer, D.M., Meyvis, T., and Davidenko, N. (2009), ‘Instructional manipulation checks: Detecting satisficing to increase statistical power’, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol 45 No 4, pp. 867–872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.03.009 Palan, S. and Schitter, C. (2018), ‘Prolific.ac—A subject pool for online experiments’, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Vol 17, pp. 22–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2017.12.004 Rammstedt, B. and John, O.P. (2007), ‘Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory in English and German’, Journal of Research in Personality, Vol. 41 No 1, pp. 203–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2006.02.001 Stuart, J. and Scott, R. (2021), ‘The Measure of Online Disinhibition (MOD): Assessing perceptions of reductions in restraint in the online environment’, Computers in Human Behavior, Vol 114, 106534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106534

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