Ramon George O. Atento

From Virtual Aggression to School Aggression: A Conceptual Model of Online Gaming, Moral Disengagement, Emotional Dysregulation, and Adolescent Violence

The relationship between violent online gaming and adolescent school-based aggression has generated decades of inconsistent empirical findings, largely because existing research has treated virtual aggression exposure as a direct predictor of behavior rather than specifying the p...

The Unfinished Ending: Disengagement, Ambiguity, and Self-Worth in Young Adult Romantic and Social Ghosting

Ghosting — the abrupt, unexplained withdrawal of communication in romantic or social relationships — has become a normalized feature of young adult relational life, yet its psychological mechanisms remain underexamined at the level of integrative conceptual synthesis. This paper...

Gendered Norms of Violence: Female Education, Economic Empowerment, and Women's Acceptance of Wife Beating Across Countries

The persistence of social norms that legitimize intimate partner violence represents an important behavioral dimension of gender inequality. This study examined the relationships of female education, women’s employment structure, and gender parity in labor-force participation wit...