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. 2022 Jul 19;17(7):e0268838. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268838

Table 2. Descriptive statistics about personality, moral disengagement and internet addiction.

All participants Females Males p-value
N = 1228 N = 750 N = 476
Extraversion 3.35 (0.93) 3.25 (0.93) 3.50 (0.90) <0.001
Agreeableness 3.10 (0.87) 3.03 (0.86) 3.22 (0.86) <0.001
Conscientiousness 3.27 (0.92) 3.26 (0.92) 3.30 (0.92) 0.402
Emotional Stability 2.73 (1.06) 2.49 (1.04) 3.11 (0.98) <0.001
Openness 3.35 (1.00) 3.40 (0.97) 3.26 (1.03) 0.024
Moral Disengagement 1.77 (0.63) 1.64 (0.54) 1.96 (0.71) <0.001
Internet addiction 2.69 (1.18) 2.73 (1.18) 2.64 (1.18) 0.183

Average scores and standard deviations for the measures of the big five personality traits, the level of moral disengagement about cyberbullying and the ratings of the degree to which participants feel nervous (Internet addiction) when they do not have access to the internet (from 1 to 5). These descriptive statistics were computed both over the entire sample, collapsing across the gender of respondents, and separately for female and male participants. The p-values reported in the rightmost column are derived from independent samples t-test comparing the average scores for male and female participants for each measure.