Classification of online problematic situations in the context of youths’ development
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David Smahel
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Michelle F. Wright
Abstract
Previous research on youths’ online risky experiences has mostly utilized quantitative designs. However, some of this research does not account for youths’ views and perceptions. This qualitative study fills this gap by describing online problematic situations from the perspectives of European youths, focuses on classifying online problematic situations based on youths’ perspectives and interrelates these with their developmental contexts. As a theoretical framework, the co-construction model was adopted, which proposes that youths’ online and offline worlds are interconnected. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with youths between the ages of 9 and 16 from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Malta, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Youths’ responses reflected the complexity of the various problematic situations online they encountered or indirectly experienced, and how such experiences were interconnected with the developmental contexts of peer relationships, parent-child relationships, romantic relationships, school, sexuality, identity, health, and morality. We recommend the development of complex educational programs focused on youths about problematic situations online, which discuss the possible situations they may encounter and how to deal with them.
©2014 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Contextualizing children’s problematic situations online
- >Articles
- Classification of online problematic situations in the context of youths’ development
- Ways to avoid problematic situations and negative experiences: Children’s preventive measures online
- Developing social media literacy: How children learn to interpret risky opportunities on social network sites
- Dealing with misuse of personal information online – Coping measures of children in the EU Kids Online III project
- Meeting online strangers offline: The nature of upsetting experiences of adolescent girls
- “I would never post that”: Children, moral sensitivity and online disclosure
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Contextualizing children’s problematic situations online
- >Articles
- Classification of online problematic situations in the context of youths’ development
- Ways to avoid problematic situations and negative experiences: Children’s preventive measures online
- Developing social media literacy: How children learn to interpret risky opportunities on social network sites
- Dealing with misuse of personal information online – Coping measures of children in the EU Kids Online III project
- Meeting online strangers offline: The nature of upsetting experiences of adolescent girls
- “I would never post that”: Children, moral sensitivity and online disclosure
