Cyberbullying is prevalent among students with intellectual and developmental disability in special education settings. Programmes should be developed to deal with this issue in which students, teachers and parents work together.

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Drawing on a survey conducted among 1743 pupils in 16 (REMOVED FOR PEER REVIEW) secondary schools, this study applies an extended theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to adolescents' acceptance of friendship requests sent by online strangers on social network sites (SNSs). As demonstrated in the literature, random friending on social network sites can heavily impact adolescents' safety online. Results yielded by means of Structural Equation Modelling show that the subjective norm with regard to the acceptance of strangers as SNS friends is the most important predictor, followed by PBC and attitude. Bonding social capital (an individual's disposal of strong, intimate ties) is negatively associated with attitude and subjective norm, whereas bridging social capital (an individual's disposal of weak, superficial ties) is positively associated with the three TPB antecedents. Life satisfaction is negatively associated with attitude. This study also finds that introverted adolescents anticipate greater positive social pressure to accept friendship requests from strangers than extraverts.

Social sharing of emotions is a frequently used emotion regulation strategy. This study adds to the emotion regulation literature and the affordances of technologies perspective by providing a better understanding of with whom adolescents share emotions on-and offline, how they do this and why they use certain modes. In-depth interviews with 22 Flemish adolescents (aged 14-18) show that these youngsters share almost all experienced emotions, often with multiple recipients and using multiple communication modes. Although they mostly prefer sharing emotions face-to-face, they also share by texting, calling or posting something on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, or Instagram. Our respondents generally make a more or less conscious decision about what and how to share. The valence, type, and intensity of the emotion, the affordances of the mode, social norms, and impression management concerns influence this decision.

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