Information sources about face-to-face meetings with people from the Internet: Gendered influence on adolescents’ risk perception and behavior

Mýlek, Vojtěch; Dědková, Lenka; Ŝmahel, David

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“…The possibility that a child becomes the victim of "cybergrooming" consistently ranks at the top of parents' internet-related concerns (e.g., Auxiere et al, 2020). The potential risks of face-to-face meetings are commonly exaggerated in the media and public debates (see Mýlek et al, 2021). This is reflected in the existing research, which often adopts a riskfocused perspective.…”

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Czech Adolescents’ Face-to-Face Meetings With People from the Internet: The Role of Adolescents’ Motives and Expectations

Mýlek

Dědková

Mesch

2022

J Youth Adolescence

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Research of face-to-face meetings between adolescents and people met online stands on untested assumptions that these meetings are uniform, and adolescents attend them to expand their social circle. It is also unclear what makes such meetings pleasant or unpleasant. This study examined meetings of 611 Czech adolescents (age 11–16, Mage = 14.04, SD = 1.67, 47.1% female). Face-to-face meetings attended with friendly, romantic, or instrumental motives differed from each other, emphasizing the need to investigate them separately. Pleasantness of meetings is closely related to disconfirmation of adolescents’ expectations. Unmet expectations related to unpleasant meetings, exceeded expectations to pleasant ones. While present findings uphold existing theories (e.g., social compensation), they also call for new theoretical perspectives for this common adolescents’ activity.

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Czech Adolescents’ Face-to-Face Meetings With People from the Internet: The Role of Adolescents’ Motives and Expectations

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Dědková

Mesch

2022

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Among the mediating variables, recent empirical studies proposed the relationship of wok role overload and psychological detachment, as well as the negative spillover between work and family spheres as mediators between ICT use and different undesirable outcomes ( Gadeyne et al, 2018 ; Elshaer et al, 2024 ). Following this avenue, recent studies explored the role of perceived risks in the intention to use ICT, showing promissory findings in different fields, as well as e-commerce ( Zeng and Li, 2023 ), education ( Baytar et al, 2023 ), social networking ( Mýlek et al, 2023 ) and work.…”

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Digitalization and job stress: exploring the mediating roles of job and personal aversion risk with gender as a moderator

Han

2024

Front. Psychol.

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BackgroundThis time-lagged study delves into the impact of digitalization on job stress. Digitalization is defined as the incorporation of digital technologies into various aspects of work life, fundamentally transforming processes, interactions, and decision-making.AimThe present research focuses on the mediating roles of job-related risk and personal risk, and the moderating effect of gender. We hypothesized that employees’ aversion to risks, both in their professional and personal facets, mediates the relationship between the rapid digitalization of their work environment and the resultant job stress. Regarding gender as a moderator, recent research suggests that gender can influence the experience of workplace stress, with women often experiencing higher levels of stress than men in certain situations. This indicates that gender might also moderate the relationship between digital living, risk perception, and job-related stress. This approach allows for an examination of the ways in which digital technology adoption influences workplace stress, considering the temporally spaced data.MethodsConducted over three waves of data collection among 795 Chinese employees, the research utilizes Hayes’s Model 8, adept at revealing the dynamics of digitalization’s influence in the workplace and its effects on individual well-being.ResultsThe study corroborates Hypothesis 1 by establishing a significant, albeit less pronounced, relationship between digital living and job stress. The findings also support Hypothesis 2 by demonstrating that both job risk and personal risk mediate this relationship. The study’s results also validate Hypothesis 3, indicating that gender moderates the relationship between digital living, job risk, personal risk, and job stress. Finally, the significant interaction effects found in the study, particularly the stronger conditional negative effect of digital living on perceptions of job and personal risks for males, despite the absence of statistical significance failed to support Hypothesis 4.ImplicationsThis study sheds light on the dynamics of job stress in the context of a digitalizing work environment. The results have important implications for designing workplace strategies and interventions that are sensitive to risk perceptions and gender differences in the digital era.

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Associations between online communication with strangers and mild delinquency in junior high school students

Obokata

Pauen

2022

Curr Psychol

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Today, adolescents can easily make contact with strangers online. The present study examines the relation of online communication with strangers (OCS) and mild delinquency among junior high school students and explores which risk factors are associated with both types of behavior, taking gender differences into account. A total of 1873 Japanese adolescents (aged 12–15) with mobile phones completed online questionnaires assessing internet usage (duration, variability), parental behavior (violence, monitoring), and adolescent characteristics (depression, self-control) as potential predictors of OCS and mild delinquency. Sequential model testing revealed that the duration of internet usage was associated with both dependent variables, whereas its variability was associated with OCS alone. Self-control and parental violence predicted both outcome variables in girls, but only mild delinquency in boys. Depression was related with both behaviors in boys. Parental monitoring was negatively associated with OCS among girls and with mild delinquency among boys. Overall, OCS appeared to have a similar function for girls as mild delinquency did for boys. Implications for future studies and preventive programs will be discussed.

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Information sources about face-to-face meetings with people from the Internet: Gendered influence on adolescents’ risk perception and behavior

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Czech Adolescents’ Face-to-Face Meetings With People from the Internet: The Role of Adolescents’ Motives and Expectations

Czech Adolescents’ Face-to-Face Meetings With People from the Internet: The Role of Adolescents’ Motives and Expectations

Digitalization and job stress: exploring the mediating roles of job and personal aversion risk with gender as a moderator

Associations between online communication with strangers and mild delinquency in junior high school students

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