Face-to-Face and Cyber-Victimization: A Longitudinal Study of Offline Appearance Anxiety and Online Appearance Preoccupation

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of medium (face-to-face, cyber) and publicity (public, private) in perceptions of severity and emotional responses to victimization among adolescents from China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, India, Japan, and the United States, while controlling for gender, individualism, and collectivism. There were 3,432 adolescents (age range = 11-15 years, 49% girls) included in this study. They read four hypothetical victimization scenarios, which were manipulated based on the medium and publicity, including public face-to-face victimization, private face-to-face victimization, public cyber victimization, and private cyber victimization. After reading the scenarios, adolescents rated the severity of each scenario and their feelings of anger, sadness, and embarrassment following victimization. Overall, higher severity related to each of the emotional responses. Furthermore, greater perceptions of severity increased adolescents’ feelings of anger, sadness, and embarrassment more often for public victimization and face-to-face victimization than for private victimization and cyber victimization. Some variations were found in these associations based on country of origin. The findings from this study indicate that perceived severity and emotional responses are different in various victimization contexts. Therefore, it is important to consider various victimization contexts.

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Lockdown Lives: A longitudinal study of inter-relationships amongst feelings of loneliness, social contacts and solidarity during the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020.

10.31234/osf.io/hx5kt ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jolien van Breen ◽

Maja Kutlaca ◽

Yasin Koc ◽

Bertus F. Jeronimus ◽

Anne Margit Reitsema ◽

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Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Public Debate ◽

Public Understanding ◽

National Data ◽

Social Contacts ◽

Face To Face ◽

The Public ◽

Time Points ◽

The Impact ◽

Cross National

In this work, we study how social contacts and feelings of solidarity shape experiences of loneliness during the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020. We draw on cross-national data, collected across four time points between mid-March until early May 2020. We situate our work within the public debate on these issues and discuss to what extent the public understanding of the impact of lockdown is borne out in the data. Results show, first, that although online contacts are beneficial in combating feelings of loneliness, people who feel more lonely are less likely to make use of this strategy. Second, online contacts do not function as a substitute to face-to-face contacts - in fact, more frequent online contacts in earlier weeks predicted an increase in face-to-face contacts in later weeks. Finally, solidarity played only a small role in shaping people’s feelings of loneliness during lockdown. In sum, our findings suggest that we must look beyond the current focus on online contact and solidarity, if we want to help people address their feelings of loneliness. We hope that this work will be instrumental not only in understanding the impact of the lockdown in early 2020, but also in preparing for possible future lockdown periods.

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Does Parental Mediation of Technology Use Moderate the Associations between Cyber Aggression Involvement and Substance Use? A Three-Year Longitudinal Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph16132425 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (13) ◽

pp. 2425 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michelle F. Wright ◽

Sebastian Wachs

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Drug Use ◽

Technology Use ◽

Illicit Drug ◽

Illicit Drug Use ◽

Parental Mediation ◽

Cyber Victimization ◽

Cyber Aggression ◽

8Th Grade

The goal of this three-year longitudinal study was to examine the buffering effect of parental mediation of adolescents’ technology use (i.e., restrictive, co-viewing, and instructive) on the relationships among cyber aggression involvement and substance use (i.e., alcohol use, marijuana use, cigarette smoking, and non-marijuana illicit drug use). Overall, 867 (Mage = 13.67, age range from 13–15 years, 51% female, 49% White) 8th grade adolescents from the Midwestern United States participated in this study during the 6th grade (Wave 1), 7th grade (Wave 2), and 8th grade (Wave 3). Results revealed that higher levels of Wave 2 instructive mediation weakened the association between Wave 1 cyber victimization and Wave 3 alcohol use and Wave 3 non-marijuana illicit drug use. The relationship was stronger between Wave 1 cyber victimization and Wave 3 alcohol use and Wave 3 non-marijuana illicit drug use when adolescents reported lower levels of Wave 2 instructive mediation. At lower levels of Wave 2 instructive mediation, the association between Wave 1 cyber aggression perpetration and Wave 3 non-marijuana illicit drug use was stronger. Implications of these findings are discussed in the context of parents recognizing their role in helping to mitigate the negative consequences associated with adolescents’ cyber aggression involvement.

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Development in electronically-supported groups: a preliminary longitudinal study of distributed and face-to-face meetings

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS-94 ◽

10.1109/hicss.1994.323495 ◽

1994 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Burke ◽

Chidambaram

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Study ◽

Face To Face

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Differences in Coping Strategies for Public and Private Face-to-Face and Cyber Victimization among Adolescents in Six Countries

International Journal of Developmental Science ◽

10.3233/dev-150179 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (1-2) ◽

pp. 43-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michelle F. Wright ◽

Takuya Yanagida ◽

Anna Ševčíková ◽

Ikuko Aoyama ◽

Lenka Dědková ◽

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Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Cyber Victimization ◽

Public And Private ◽

Face To Face

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Exploring Relational Ethics and Care: A Longitudinal Study of a Hong Kong Cellist's Marriage Disintegration and Identity Change

The Qualitative Report ◽

10.46743/2160-3715/2018.2926 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Annabella Fung

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Marital Conflict ◽

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽

Relational Ethics ◽

Identity Change ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Music Learning ◽

Face To Face ◽

Choice Making

I am a survivor of divorce. When I visited Hong Kong, a mutual friend introduced me to a cellist going through a divorce as a participant for my research which investigates music learning and identity of Chinese musicians. My research took a different path because I decided to explore how she constructed meaning through divorce, leading to her identity change. I referred her to counselling and supported her through regular messaging. Research is more than just data collection; the wounded-healer standing by the wounded is therapeutic for both of us. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), this study reports our conversations, including two face-to-face semi-structured interviews and messaging over eighteen months. Four themes emerged about the cellist’s understanding of her marital conflict: an urge for financial security and materialistic pursuit; faith abandonment; prioritizing children’s education and parenthood; and diverging lives. This longitudinal study explored relational ethics, researcher care and research as emancipation. It acknowledged the freedom and choice-making responsibility of the researcher who extended the project boundary to improve the wellbeing of the participant. This is the essence of qualitative research, with unanticipated life-changing consequences that transform the researcher, the participant, and global readers who share a similar experience.

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Investigation of Positive Thinking Skills and Social Appearence Anxiety of Faculty of Sport Sciences Students

10.53350/pjmhs2115103240 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (10) ◽

pp. 3240-3244

Author(s):

Serkan Kabak ◽

Ebru Güzel Kuyucu

Keyword(s):

Thinking Skills ◽

University Faculty ◽

Positive Thinking ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Thinking Skill ◽

Face To Face ◽

Appearance Anxiety ◽

The Social ◽

Social Appearance Anxiety ◽

Sports Sciences

Background: With the developing technology in the 21st century, societies are changing. With the change of societies, the spiritual and psychological needs of the people who make up the societies also change and the factors affecting these needs show differences. Aim: In this study; It was aimed to examine the positive thinking skill levels and social appearance anxiety of students studying at Trabzon University Faculty of Sport Sciences. Methods: The research is a survey model study. The sample group consists of a total of 165 students, 63' female and 102' male, studying at Trabzon University Faculty of Sports Sciences in the 2020-2021 period. Students participated in the study voluntarily. Detailed information about the scale was given to the participants. The data were both prepared electronically with Google Forms (online survey) and sent to the participants from faculty watsap groups, and were collected face-to-face from students who had the opportunity to reach them face-to-face. Positive Thinking Skills Scale (8 items) and Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (16 items) were used as data collection tools. The Positive Thinking Skills Scale is a 4-point Likert type, and the validity and reliability studies of the Turkish format of the scale were carried out by Akın, Uysal, and Akın (2015). The Social Appearance Anxiety Scale, on the other hand, is a 5-point Likert type, and the validity and reliability studies of the Turkish version of the scale were conducted by Doğan (2010). Conclusion: Within the scope of the study, the positive thinking skills of the students of the faculty of sports sciences and the social appearance anxiety correlation results show that there is a positive and significant difference. Keywords: Sports, Positive Thinking Skill, Social Appearance Anxiety

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