Heightened vulnerability and increased risk-taking among adolescent chat room users: results from a statewide school survey

Beebe, Tim; Asche, Stephen E.; Harrison, Patricia A.; QUINLAN, K

doi:10.1016/s1054-139x(03)00528-7

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“…The research results suggest that parents should pay special attention to children who are more heavily involved in social networking activities. This parallels earlier research findings that children who had greater levels of online chatting were more likely to exhibit risky behavior (Beebe et al, 2004).…”

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Online usage motive and information disclosure for preteen children

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2012),"Exploring parents' and children's awareness on internet threats in relation to internet safety", Campus-Wide Information Systems, Vol. 29 Iss 3 pp. 133-143 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/ authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -This paper aims to examine motivations for young consumers' internet use, how these motivations relate to children's privacy concerns and, subsequently, children's willingness to disclose personally identifiable information.Design/methodology/approach -The strengths of three common internet usage motives (information seeking, entertainment, and socializing) in predicting disclosure behavior are examined via survey research with a sample of children aged 10-12.Findings -Two of the motives -information seeking and socializing -are found to influence privacy concerns, which in turn, are shown to affect willingness to disclose information. Information-seeking motivations were positively related to privacy concerns, while socializing motivations were negatively related to privacy concerns. Direct incentives are also found to increase disclosure.Originality/value -The findings suggest that the uses and gratifications theory is useful for understanding children's privacy behaviors relating to information seeking and socializing motivations. Combining this with the varying levels of interactivity of websites that might satisfy various motives helps researchers begin to understand how particular motives may lead to increases or decreases in risky behavior; in this case, preteen disclosure of personal information.

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“…Instead, vulnerabilities such as family conflict, depression, conversing with unknown people about sex, and sending personal information to strangers have been identified 3–7. Evidence also suggests that adolescents who have been victims of childhood abuse (including physical or sexual abuse and/or neglect) may be at particular risk, because they are more likely to visit chat rooms,8 be solicited sexually online and offline,9 and receive aggressive sexual solicitations3 than their nonabused peers. Moreover, childhood abuse victims are likely to experience subsequent physical and sexual revictimizations and exploitations,10–13 making it plausible that vulnerabilities for these types of revictimizations carry over to Internet-initiated victimization.…”

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Childhood Abuse, Avatar Choices, and Other Risk Factors Associated With Internet-Initiated Victimization of Adolescent Girls

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Objective-The objective of the study was to determine the risk factors for Internet-initiated victimization of female adolescents. In particular, it was expected that girls who experienced childhood abuse would show higher vulnerability than their nonabused peers. In addition, the study examined how provocative self-presentations might be related to online sexual advances and offline encounters.Patients and Methods-Adolescent girls aged 14 to 17 years who had experienced substantiated childhood abuse (N = 104) were demographically matched with nonabused girls (N = 69) and surveyed regarding Internet usage, maternal and paternal caregiver presence, substance use, highrisk sexual attitudes, and involvement with high-risk peers. To measure online self-presentation, participants each created avatars, which were quantified according to the degree of provocative physical features.Results-Forty percent of the sample reported experiencing online sexual advances, and 26% reported meeting someone offline who they first met online. Abused girls were significantly more likely to have experienced online sexual advances and to have met someone offline. Having been abused and choosing a provocative avatar were significantly and independently associated with online sexual advances, which were, in turn, associated with offline encounters.Conclusions-A history of childhood abuse may increase Internet-initiated victimization vulnerability. Parents should be aware of the ways in which their adolescents are presenting themselves online. Making adolescent girls and their parents aware that provocative online selfpresentations may have implications for sexual solicitation might help to ward off sexual advances Many Internet-initiated sex crimes originate in social networking Web sites, 1 several of which use interactive virtual personas or avatars as a means of user interface. An avatar is a selfrendered, digital representation of the user and, in many social networking sites, the fundamental avenue by which virtual identities are presented to others (Fig 1). For example, Second Life presents users with hundreds of bodily characteristics to choose from spanning all shapes and sizes, allowing for limitless composite possibilities. The selection of an avatar is just 1 example of how social network users choose to present themselves to other users. Many social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, allow self-descriptions and photographs as a means of self-presentation, and these, like avatar selections, may hold considerable influence in shaping online behavior and interactions. There is evidence that the ways in which users present themselves as avatars shape the behaviors of both users and perceivers. 19 For example, avatars with highly feminine features are among the most attractively rated virtual images. 20 A recent study found that people assigned to an attractive avatar were more likely to approach opposite-sex strangers and to engage in higher rates of self-disclosure than people with unattractive avatars. 21 Th...

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“…A disproportionate number of adolescents, who were frequent ‘chat-room-users’ have run away from home and experimented with drugs and alcohol 13. On the other hand, many adolescents have searched for accurate information about sex online 14 15.…”

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“…Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Reports indicated that 47.8% of high school students have had sex 16. One study reported the average frequency of coital events was 0.94 per week17; young internet users seeking sex partners may be at high risk of STI 13 18. However, because the internet has the ability to provide accurate educational information, using it also to provide STI services has much appeal.…”

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Utilising the internet to test for sexually transmitted infections: results of a survey and accuracy testing

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Arora

Quinn

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Sexually Transmitted Infections

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Heightened vulnerability and increased risk-taking among adolescent chat room users: results from a statewide school survey

Abstract: Because chat room use serves as an indicator of heightened vulnerability and risk-taking, parents and others need to be aware of potential dangers posed by online contact between strangers and youth.

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Online usage motive and information disclosure for preteen children

Childhood Abuse, Avatar Choices, and Other Risk Factors Associated With Internet-Initiated Victimization of Adolescent Girls

Utilising the internet to test for sexually transmitted infections: results of a survey and accuracy testing

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