A Routine Activity Approach to Understand Cybergrooming Victimization Among Adolescents from Six Countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F20%3A00115176" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/20:00115176 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cyber.2019.0426" target="_blank" >https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cyber.2019.0426</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0426" target="_blank" >10.1089/cyber.2019.0426</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Routine Activity Approach to Understand Cybergrooming Victimization Among Adolescents from Six Countries
Original language description
Little attention has been given academically to empirically tested theoretical frameworks that aim at measuring the risk of adolescents falling victim to cybergrooming. To this end, we have applied the routine activity theory (RAT) to investigate whether exposure to motivated offenders (PC/laptop ownership and Internet access in one's own bedroom), capable guardianship (parental mediation strategies of Internet use), and target suitability (adolescents' online disclosure of private information) might predict cybergrooming victimization among adolescents. Using data from a cross-sectional survey of 5,938 adolescents from Germany, India, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, and the United States, ranging in age from 12 to 18 (M=14.77, SD=1.60), we found that PC/laptop ownership and Internet access in one's own bedroom, parental mediation, and online disclosure are all directly associated with cybergrooming victimization. Although instructive parental mediation is negatively related to online disclosure and cybergrooming victimization, restrictive mediation is positively related to both. In addition, online disclosure partially mediated the relationship between parental mediation and cybergrooming victimization. The analyses confirm the effectiveness of applying RAT to cybergrooming. Moreover, this study highlights the need for prevention programs, including lessons on age-appropriate information and communication technology usage and access, to educate parents on using instructive strategies of Internet mediation, and inform adolescents about how to avoid disclosing too much private information online. RAT could function as a theoretical framework for these programs.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
ISSN
2152-2715
e-ISSN
2152-2723
Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
218-224
UT code for WoS article
000509948900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85083369619