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The Protective Effects of Parental Monitoring and Internet Restriction on Adolescents’ Risk of Online Harassment

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Youth and Adolescence, December 2014
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Title
The Protective Effects of Parental Monitoring and Internet Restriction on Adolescents’ Risk of Online Harassment
Published in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, December 2014
DOI 10.1007/s10964-014-0242-4
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Authors

Atika Khurana, Amy Bleakley, Amy B. Jordan, Daniel Romer

Abstract

With many adolescents using the internet to communicate with their peers, online harassment is on the rise among youth. The purpose of this study was to understand how parental monitoring and strategies parents use to regulate children's internet use (i.e., internet restriction) can help reduce online harassment among adolescents. Online survey data were collected from a nationally representative sample of parents and their 12-17 year old adolescents (n = 629; 49 % female). Structural equation modeling was used to test direct and indirect effects of parental monitoring and internet restriction on being a victim of online harassment. Potential mediators included adolescents' frequency of use of social networking websites, time spent on computers outside of school, and internet access in the adolescent's bedroom. Age and gender differences were also explored. Adolescents' reports of parental monitoring and efforts to regulate specific forms of internet use were associated with reduced rates of online harassment. Specifically, the effect of parental monitoring was largely direct and 26 times greater than parental internet restriction. The latter was associated with lower rates of harassment only indirectly by limiting internet access in the adolescent's bedroom. These effects operated similarly for younger and older adolescents and for males and females. Adolescents' perceptions of parental monitoring and awareness can be protective against online harassment. Specific restriction strategies such as regulating internet time and content can also help reduce the risk of online harassment.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malaysia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 263 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 55 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 13%
Student > Bachelor 32 12%
Researcher 21 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 6%
Other 47 18%
Unknown 60 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 66 25%
Social Sciences 51 19%
Computer Science 14 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 4%
Other 29 11%
Unknown 83 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 60. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 March 2022.
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#648,049
of 23,906,448 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Youth and Adolescence
#111
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#8,416
of 361,426 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Youth and Adolescence
#1
of 14 outputs
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