DOI: https://doi.org/10.52131/pjhss.2022.1003.0273 1121 eISSN: 2415-007X Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Volume 10, Number 3, 2022, Pages 1121–1131 Journal Homepage: https://journals.internationalrasd.org/index.php/pjhss Moderating role of Government Policy into the Relationship between Digital Distrust, Negative Emotions, Information Overload and Cyber Violence: Evidence from Pakistan Rana Muhammad Shahid Yaqub 1 & 5 , Hafiz Muhammad Adeel Siddique 2 & 5 , Syed Farhan Gillani 3 & 5 , Muhammad Murad 4 & 5 1 Assistant Professor, Email: shahid.yaqub@iub.edu.pk 2 Research Scholar, Email: h_addi@live.com 3 Research Scholar, Email: sfarhangillani@yahoo.com 4 Research Scholar, Email: muhammadmuradjoiya@gmail.com 5 Department of Marketing and International Business, Institute of Business Management and Administrative Sciences (IBMAS), The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received: July 14, 2022 Revised: September 26, 2022 Accepted: September 28, 2022 Available Online: September 30, 2022 Cyber violence is emerging and critical for adolescents in Pakistan. The federal investigation agency in Pakistan is reporting thousands of cyber violence Crimes every year. The cases of cyber violence have a deep psychological impact on the victims. Therefore, the core objective of this study was to investigate the Impact of emerging determinants of cyber violence like negative emotions, information overload, and government policy on Cyber Violence behaviours among Adolescents. The study is based on primary data collected on the Likert scale and Partial Least Square (PLS) method was used for data analysis. The study concludes that adolescents in Pakistan are increasingly demonstrating cyber violence and in turn affecting their psychological state of affairs. This study enhances the literature on the significant role of government policy decrease cyber violence. Concerning cyber violence against adolescents, this study has significant practical implications critically important for the government and other stakeholders to reduce the cases of cyber violence in Pakistan. The future directions of this study direct the new gaps in the literature for future research. Keywords: Government Policy Information Overload Negative Emotions Digital Distrust Cyber Violence © 2022 The Authors, Published by iRASD. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non- Commercial License Corresponding Author’s Email: shahid.yaqub@iub.edu.pk 1. Introduction In the current digital era, the crimes of cyber violence are increasing due to advancement in and misuse of technology (Zahoor & Razi, 2020; Zahoor, Safdar, Rafiq, & Rana, 2022). The focus of the government is to bring the technology and facilitate the people, but very less attention is paid to avoiding cybercrime (Ullah, Amir, Khan, Asmat, & Habib, 2015; Usman, 2017). The federal investigation agency of Pakistan has been reporting substantial increase in cyber violence every year (Shad, 2019; Syed, Khaver, & Yasin, 2019). Indeed, Some people are using social media platforms for depraved purposes and they are discriminating against the people on social media (Abbasi, Aamir, & Mahmood, 2021). The cases of cyber violence have a deep psychological impact on the victims. Indeed, in advanced countries, the regulations protecting people from illegal conduct on social media and cases of cyber violence is clearly evident (Anjum, 2020; J. Awan & Memon, 2016). However, very less intention is paid to crubbing cyber violence-related crimes in developing and underdeveloped countries (Bukht, Raza, Awan, & Ahmad, 2020). Therefore, the Crime control agencies have the responsibility to control cybercrime violence that is not accepted widely by the people (Khalil, Usman, & Manzoor, 2020; M. S. Malik & Islam, 2019).