Digital Outing Confidence as a Mediator in the Digital Behavior Regulation and Internet Content Awareness Relationship

Abstract

The public digital outing refers to people creating and sharing personal information over the social media platforms. This specific digital outing behaviour is none of the less uniquely vulnerable to the negative effects of the digital public, triggering the individual's digital selfconfidence injuring, and negatively impacting individual's digital outing confidence. Starting from the assumption that the digital outing confidence might mediate the association between the IV internet content awareness and the DV digital behavioural regulation, we have investigated this relationship under a micro research driven from the database collected under the Erasmus+ project Hate's Journey. Our team has designed an 18 items online questionnaire composed by single items measures, testing different opinions and perceptions related to the digital behaviour construct. Project team has collected 206 valid responses from resident individuals of Spain, Romania, Turkey and Latvia. Results confirm the partial mediation of digital outing confidence in the digital behaviour regulation and internet content awareness relationship. Conclusions and implications are discussed.

A Predictive Model of Youth Bystanders’ Helping Attitudes

“…Unemployed respondents represent 5.8%, students represent 43.7%, volunteers represent 1% and employed are 49.5%. Regarding the online time spent by sample participants, 1% declared -never or hardly ever, 8.7% -every week, 20.4% -almost daily, 46.6%several times per day, 23.3% -and almost all the time, the number of frequent internet users is 69.9% (Rad, Dixon, & Rad, 2020).…”

“…Data collection procedure was coordinated by 4 partner organizations: Asociación Cultural Social y Educativa Segundas Oportunidades (Spain), Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad (Romania), Ucarli Genclik Dernegi (Turkey) and Young Folks (Latvia). The sampling process ended by the time each of the 4 project partner countries reached their sample saturation of 50 valid respondents and the 3 month time saturation, during the summer of 2019 (Rad, Dixon, & Rad, 2020).…”

“…The following single research items were used: -for online duality (M=2.41, SD=0.94) assessment this research used a single item measure -Item 8.5. On a one to five scale (1 standing for strong disagreement and 5 standing for strong agreement), respondents were asked to select one value according to the agreement with the statement: I talk about different things online than speaking to people (Rad, Dixon, & Rad, 2020).…”

A Moderated Mediation Effect of Online Time Spent on Internet Content Awareness, Perceived Online Hate Speech and Helping Attitudes Disposal of Bystanders

“…Our research targeted a pool of 206 participants from Romania (24.8%), Latvia (24.8%), Spain (24.8%), and Turkey (25.7%), with an average age of 30 years, male respondents (39.8%) and female respondents (60.2%), with an educational level of 3.9% -elementary school, 1.9% -technical school, 29.1% -high school, 32% -Bachelor, 29.1% -Master and 3.9% -PhD level. Unemployed respondents represent 5.8%, students represent 43.7%, volunteers represent 1% and employed are 49.5% (Rad, D., Dixon, D., & Rad, G., 2020).…”

“…Data collection procedure was coordinated by 4 partner organizations: Asociación Cultural Social y Educativa Segundas Oportunidades (Spain), Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad (Romania), Ucarli Genclik Dernegi (Turkey) and Young Folks (Latvia). The sampling process ended by the time each of the 4 project partner countries reached their sample saturation of 50 valid respondents and the 3 month time saturation, during June -August 2019 (Rad et al, 2020).…”