Children's online coping strategies: Rethinking coping typologies in a risk‐specific approach

Abstract

Understanding how children deal with problematic situations online is helpful in developing efficient awareness raising and online resilience building initiatives. In this article, we will discuss and develop typologies for online coping strategies. In a school survey, 2046 Flemish children aged 10-16 were asked about how they (would) respond when confronted with different types of online risks. Using principal component analyses and multi-dimensional scaling, we identified different types of cross-risk and risk-specific coping strategies, and explored which types of coping have similar underlying meanings. The results suggest to distinguish behavioral avoidance tactics from mere passive responses or indifference. Young people tend to perceive online coping strategies along two dimensions: engagement versus disengagement and technical versus non-technical measures. Behavioral avoidance is popular among younger children and is associated with a medium level of active engagement and often combined with communicative approaches. Girls are more communicative and respond more proactively.

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“…Rodelli et al (2018) assessed healthy lifestyles associated with resilience and found that healthier behaviors were associated with less suicidal ideation. An active coping style, such as seeking help or used safety tools such as blocking and reporting, reduced harm (Vandoninck & d’Haenens, 2015).…”

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“…Z hlediska genderových nálezů copingových strategií u dětí a dospívajících s normální tělesnou hmotností jsou odlišnosti potvrzovány různě silně a v závislosti na akademickém nebo jiném kontextu (Ben -Eliyahu & Kaplan, 2015;Čanigová, 2001;Eschenbeck, Schmid, Schröder, Wasserfall, & Kohlmann, 2018). U on -line strategií jsou genderové odlišnosti diferencovány v souvislosti s obsahovými riziky nebo s věkem dětí (Vandoninck & dʼHaenens, 2015).…”