 Factors influencing interactions between adolescents and unknown people from the internet: Findings from five European countriesVojtěch Mýlek, Lenka Dedkova and Hana Machackova Children and Youth Services Review, 2020, vol. 114, issue C Abstract: A considerable amount of adolescents’ interpersonal communication takes place online. Adolescents use the internet to interact with friends and family, but also with people who were previously unknown to them. This study focuses on two types of interactions with unknown people from the internet: online communication and offline face-to-face meetings. We used theoretical frameworks of adolescent developmental tasks and risk-taking behavior to identify the psychological and social factors that relate to the likelihood that adolescents will interact with unknown people. We further examined the differences between the two types of interactions. Using a sample 6647 adolescents, aged 11–16 (50.4% girls), from five European countries included in the EU Kids Online IV project, we examined the association of selected factors for both types of interactions. Keywords: Unknown people from the internet; Online communication; Face-to-face meeting; Adolescence; Risk-taking behavior; Developmental tasks (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:114:y:2020:i:c:s0190740919314276 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105038 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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