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

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Autor(a) principal: Vissenberg, Joyce
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: d'Haenens, Leen
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2774
Resumo: 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.
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title Protecting Youths’ Wellbeing Online: Studying the Associations between Opportunities, Risks, and Resilience
spellingShingle Protecting Youths’ Wellbeing Online: Studying the Associations between Opportunities, Risks, and Resilience
Vissenberg, Joyce
EU Kids Online; online opportunities; online resilience; online risks; wellbeing; youth
title_short Protecting Youths’ Wellbeing Online: Studying the Associations between Opportunities, Risks, and Resilience
title_full Protecting Youths’ Wellbeing Online: Studying the Associations between Opportunities, Risks, and Resilience
title_fullStr Protecting Youths’ Wellbeing Online: Studying the Associations between Opportunities, Risks, and Resilience
title_full_unstemmed Protecting Youths’ Wellbeing Online: Studying the Associations between Opportunities, Risks, and Resilience
title_sort Protecting Youths’ Wellbeing Online: Studying the Associations between Opportunities, Risks, and Resilience
author Vissenberg, Joyce
author_facet Vissenberg, Joyce
d'Haenens, Leen
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d'Haenens, Leen
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv EU Kids Online; online opportunities; online resilience; online risks; wellbeing; youth
topic EU Kids Online; online opportunities; online resilience; online risks; wellbeing; youth
description 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.
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