Vulnerable Young People and Their Experience of Online Risks

Asam, Aiman El; Katz, Adrienne

doi:10.1080/07370024.2018.1437544

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“…The results of our study showed that older adolescents are more likely to engage in risky photo disclosure on SNS. These results go along with a general notion and repeated results stating that older adolescents are more likely to engage in risky behaviours online (El Asam & Katz, 2018).…”

Section: The Role Of Affect On Adolescents Risky Photo Disclosuresupporting

confidence: 77%

“…Talking about risky photo disclosure, it is important to mention that teenage girls, for example, are seen as the ones who are more likely to engage in sharing flirtatious or sexual photos on SNS (Ramsey & Horan, 2018). Moreover, it is also stated that older adolescents are more likely to engage in different kinds of risky behaviours online (El Asam & Katz, 2018). Thus, we may predict that older female adolescents will be more likely to engage in risky photo disclosure online.…”

Section: The Role Of Personal Characteristics and Emotions On Adolescmentioning

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The Importance Of Emotions And Personal Characteristics On Adolescents’ Risky Photo-Disclosure Online

Paluckaitė¹,

Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė²

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Researchers state that adolescents are likely to engage in risky photo disclosure online, which might be related to their emotions and personal characteristics. Research Questions: How positive and negative emotions when sharing risky photos online are related to adolescents' risky photo disclosure online? How important personal characteristics are related to adolescents' risky photo disclosure online? The purpose of this study is to find out how positive and negative emotions are related to adolescents' tendency to engage in risky photo disclosure and how personal characteristics (narcissism, social anxiety and privacy concern) are related to such kind of behaviour. A randomised cross-sectional survey with a hardcopy questionnaire, based on the measures of variety of the forms of risky photo disclosure online (e.g., sharing nude photos); frequency of risky photo disclosure when feeling positive and negative emotions; personal characteristics (social anxiety, narcissism and privacy concern) was conducted in 2019. 459 adolescents (59.1% female) aged 12-17 years old (M=14.55, SD=1.24) participated in the study. The results of the study showed that positive and negative emotions towards sharing risky photos on risky photo disclosure online (F=136.85, p<.001) explains 56% of actual adolescents' risky photo disclosure, with the strongest predictor of positive emotions (β=0.82, p˂α); personal characteristics (F=8.57, p˂α) explain only 9.6% of risky photo disclosure online, with the strongest predictor of narcissism (β=0.25, p˂α). According to the results, we conclude that positive emotions towards sharing risky photos online and more expressed narcissistic personality trait increases adolescents' tendency to engage in risky photo disclosure online.

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Section: The Role Of Affect On Adolescents Risky Photo Disclosuresupporting

confidence: 77%

Section: The Role Of Personal Characteristics and Emotions On Adolescmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance Of Emotions And Personal Characteristics On Adolescents’ Risky Photo-Disclosure Online

Paluckaitė¹,

Žardeckaitė-Matulaitienė²

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Researchers agree that the distinction between online opportunities and online risks lies in their effects on the user's wellbeing. While 'opportunities' generally produce beneficial outcomes, activities that are termed risks might have harmful consequences (Livingstone et al, 2011), preventing youths to benefit fully from their Internet use (El Asam & Katz, 2018). Research has found support for positive outcomes of online opportunities for youths' wellbeing (e.g., communication opportunities and social wellbeing) and negative effects of exposure to risky online content on their wellbeing.…”

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“…Youths that are more resilient are less likely to feel harm after an online risk experience than those who are less resilient. The majority of young people seems to be quite resilient to harm from risky online experiences (El Asam & Katz, 2018;Livingstone et al, 2011).…”

Section: Online Resiliencementioning

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Protecting Youths’ Wellbeing Online: Studying the Associations between Opportunities, Risks, and Resilience

Vissenberg

d’Haenens

2020

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<p>As youths engage in different activities on the Internet, it is inevitable that they are exposed to risky online contents that might bother or upset them. Previous research has shown that online resilience, or the ability to effectively cope with online risks and to deal with their negative consequences, protects youths against these feelings of harm that sometimes emerge after a risk experience. However, knowledge about the role of resilience in protecting youths’ overall wellbeing seems rather limited. The current study analyzes new EU Kids Online data using structural equation modeling to fill this gap. The findings corroborate earlier findings that the more opportunities youths take up online, the more they are exposed to risky content. These risk encounters are negatively associated with wellbeing. Online resilience moderates this association and protects youths’ overall wellbeing from being harmed by online risk exposure. Implications for further research and practice are discussed.</p>

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“…Of particular concern are those in each age group who have mental health problems, who are already vulnerable to exploitation offline and for whom this risk is amplified in their online life. Young people who are vulnerable offline in relation to social disadvantage are more likely to report high-risk web experiences relating to inappropriate content, conduct, contacts, and cyber scams [ 20 ]. Young people are also more susceptible than adults to the effects of social modeling of suicidal behavior, including in relation to the media [ 21 , 22 ].…”

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Assessing Digital Risk in Psychiatric Patients: Mixed Methods Study of Psychiatry Trainees’ Experiences, Views, and Understanding

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Background The use of digital technology can help people access information and provide support for their mental health problems, but it can also expose them to risk, such as bullying or prosuicide websites. It may be important to consider internet-related risk behavior (digital risk) within a generic psychiatric risk assessment, but no studies have explored the practice or acceptability of this among psychiatrists. Objective This study aimed to explore psychiatry trainees’ experiences, views, and understanding of digital risk in psychiatry. We predicted that clinician awareness would be highest among trainees who work in child and adolescent mental health services. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey of psychiatry trainees attending a UK regional trainees’ conference to investigate how they routinely assess patients’ internet use and related risk of harm and their experience and confidence in assessing these risks. We conducted focus groups to further explore trainees’ understandings and experiences of digital risk assessment. Descriptive statistics and chi-squared tests were used to present the quantitative data. A thematic analysis was used to identify the key themes in the qualitative data set. Results The cross-sectional survey was completed by 113 out of 312 psychiatry trainees (response rate 36.2%), from a range of subspecialties and experience levels. Half of the trainees (57/113, 50.4%) reported treating patients exposed to digital risk, particularly trainees subspecializing in child and adolescent psychiatry (17/22, 77% vs 40/91, 44%;P=.02). However, 67.3% (76/113) reported not feeling competent to assess digital risk. Child and adolescent psychiatrists were more likely than others to ask patients routinely about specific digital risk domains, including reckless web-based behavior (18/20, 90% vs 54/82, 66%; P=.03), prosuicide websites (20/21, 95% vs 57/81, 70%; P=.01), and online sexual behavior (17/21, 81% vs 44/81, 54%; P=.02). Although 84.1% (95/113) of the participants reported using a proforma to record general risk assessment, only 5% (5/95) of these participants prompted an assessment of internet use. Only 9.7% (11/113) of the trainees had received digital risk training, and 73.5% (83/113) reported that they would value this. Our thematic analysis of transcripts from 3 focus groups (comprising 11 trainees) identified 2 main themes: barriers to assessment and management of digital risk, and the double-edged sword of web use. Barriers reported included the novelty and complexity of the internet, a lack of confidence and guidance in addressing internet use directly, and ongoing tension between assessment and privacy. Conclusions Although it is common for psychiatrists to encounter patients subject to digital risk, trainee psychiatrists lack competence and confidence in their assessment. Training in digital risk and the inclusion of prompts in standardized risk proformas would promote good clinical practice and prevent a potential blind spot in general risk assessment.

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Vulnerable Young People and Their Experience of Online Risks

Cited by 44 publications

References 38 publications

The Importance Of Emotions And Personal Characteristics On Adolescents’ Risky Photo-Disclosure Online

The Importance Of Emotions And Personal Characteristics On Adolescents’ Risky Photo-Disclosure Online

Protecting Youths’ Wellbeing Online: Studying the Associations between Opportunities, Risks, and Resilience

Assessing Digital Risk in Psychiatric Patients: Mixed Methods Study of Psychiatry Trainees’ Experiences, Views, and Understanding

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