scholarly journals Why Do Students Become Cyberbullies? Elucidating the Contributions of Specific Developmental Risks to Cyberbullying

Psych ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 800-811
Author(s):  
Susanne Wallner ◽  
Mark Stemmler
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Life Course Criminology ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Empathy Deficits ◽  
Developmental Risks ◽  
Contextual Characteristics ◽  
Predictive Relationships ◽  
Low Self Control ◽  
Delinquent Peers

Cyberbullying is currently considered as a widespread problem among children and adolescents; in particular, the risks of cyberbullying have recently been examined. The empirical analyses of the present work are based on data from a German longitudinal study. The self-reports of adolescents from Dortmund and Nuremberg on both cyberbullying and individual and contextual characteristics were taken into account. The two-wave panel encompasses N = 871 adolescents (44.5% male); the average age was M = 15.1 years (SD = 0.83) at t1. Data on cyberbullying refer to sending insults or threats to others via the Internet, spreading rumours or talking badly about others via the Internet, and sending private e-mails, photos or similar from others in order to embarrass or ridicule the persons concerned. Other characteristics relate to single aspects of psychopathy (egocentric egotism, low self-control, empathy deficits), acceptance of violence, and delinquent peers. The path analytical findings illustrate the predictive relationships between both individual and contextual risks and cyberbullying in adolescence. The empirical results are discussed, among others, from the perspective of developmental and life-course criminology.

A Portable Mind Wave Monitor Headband Applied in Intellectual Disabled Children

2013 ◽  
Vol 336-338 ◽  
pp. 1563-1569
Author(s):  
Zhuo Chen Ge ◽  
Ren Jun Liu ◽  
Ran Hao Lu ◽  
Cheng Fan Lin ◽  
Run Jing Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
Self Control ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
3G Network ◽  
Testing Data ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Low Self Control

A portable mind wave monitor which is a special made headband for intellectual disabled children is proposed. The headband could make the children easier to be understood by the teachers and researchers. The EEG (electroencephalogram-graph) sensor, live camera, microphone and a series of sensors is consisted in the headband. With the Wi-Fi or 3G network, the headband could connect to server though the internet at any time. The teachers and researchers can access on the website or apps on smartphone to manage the children daily testing data. Intellectual disable children always have low self-control ability, limited language ability and self-associated complications, and this system meets the special needs for the teachers and researchers. This headband enable teachers and parents have the same perspective as the intellectual disabled children.

Low Self-Control, Peer Delinquency, and Crime: Considering Gendered Pathways

2021 ◽  
pp. 002242782110014
Author(s):  
Brian J. Stults ◽  
Jorge Luis Hernandez ◽  
Carter Hay
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Peer Delinquency ◽  
Low Self Control ◽  
Delinquent Peers

Objectives: We extend prior research by considering how low self-control and peer delinquency may work together in a mediating process whereby low self-control increases association with delinquent peers, which in turn increases criminal offending. Further, we draw on gender crime research to suggest that the indirect effect of self-control on offending will be greater for boys than girls. Methods: We use three waves of data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods to test these hypotheses for violent offending, property offending, and substance use, using multi-group multilevel generalized structural equation models that address issues of time ordering, spuriousness, and the measurement of criminality. Results: The hypothesized mediation process is supported by our results. We also find that the indirect effect of low self-control on violence and property crime is greater for boys, primarily driven by a stronger effect of delinquent peers for boys. In contrast, and in support of expectations, the results for substance use reveal little gender difference. Conclusions: We conclude that rather than treating self-control and peer delinquency as competing explanations, we should view them as working together to affect crime and delinquency. Moreover, researchers must give careful attention to gender differences in the pathways to offending.

Evidence of Genetic and Environmental Effects On the Development of Low Self-Control

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 1158-1172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Beaver ◽  
Marie Ratchford ◽  
Christopher J. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Parental Socialization ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Antisocial Behaviors ◽  
Peer Affiliation ◽  
National Longitudinal Study ◽  
Delinquent Peer ◽  
Low Self Control ◽  
Delinquent Peers ◽  
Crime Causation

A body of research has revealed that low self-control is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of antisocial behaviors. As a result, there is great interest in identifying the factors that cause variation in levels of self-control. Much of this work has centered on identifying the effects that social factors, such as parental socialization, have on self-control. More recently, however, there has been research revealing that levels of self-control are scripted by genetic factors as well as environmental factors. The current study examines whether a polymorphism (5HTTLPR) in the serotonin transporter gene and exposure to delinquent peers are associated with levels of self-control. Analysis of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health indicates that the 5HTTLPR polymorphism interacted with a measure of delinquent peer affiliation to predict variation in self-control during adolescence and adulthood. Implications for theories of crime causation are discussed.

Technology, the Internet, and Gambling

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-240
Author(s):  
Howard J. Shaffer ◽  
Heather M. Gray ◽  
Sarah E. Nelson ◽  
Debi A. LaPlante
Keyword(s):  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Gambling Behavior ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Internet Gambling ◽  
Self Control ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Predictive Algorithms ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Corporate Social

Many people worry that exposure to Internet gambling will overpower individuals’ self-control, stimulate addictive behavior patterns, and provide the context to sustain addiction once it emerges. Though many researchers have attempted to evaluate this proposition, they have been limited by their methodological approaches—specifically, their use of convenience samples and self-reports of Internet gambling behavior. At the Division on Addiction, the authors collaborated with bwin.party digital entertainment to examine electronically recorded gambling data (i.e., records of actual gambling) among bwin.party subscribers. As described in this chapter, their early epidemiological studies revealed that few Internet gamblers are intemperate and that the typical Internet player gambles moderately. However, those who do use the Internet to gamble excessively often experience lasting and far-reaching harm. The authors review prevention and intervention strategies to help promote healthier Internet gambling. These cross-cutting strategies emerge from public policy, public health, corporate social responsibility, and other fields. With regard to user-initiated strategies, the authors describe what researchers have discovered about the effectiveness and reach of self-limitation and self-exclusion programs. With regard to operator-initiated strategies, they propose a series of steps leading to the development of algorithms designed to predict which Internet gamblers will require interventions to reduce gambling harm. The authors describe their approach to these steps during their work developing predictive algorithms for bwin.party. Finally, the chapter considers ethical principles that should inform the development of programs and policies designed to provide the safest possible Internet gambling experience.

Involvement in Crime and Delinquency and the Development of Technological and Computer Skills: A Longitudinal Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2110491
Author(s):  
Dzhansarayeva Rima ◽  
Saltanat Atakhanova ◽  
Gulzhan Mukhamadieva ◽  
Yergali Adlet ◽  
Kevin M. Beaver
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Crime And Delinquency ◽  
Violent Delinquency ◽  
Low Self Control ◽  
Delinquent Peers ◽  
Do So

A body of research has revealed that involvement in crime and delinquency is associated with a wide number of social, economic, and health consequences. The current study built off this knowledge base and examined whether measures of adolescent violent delinquency and contact with the criminal justice system were related to the access of basic, and experience with, technology, and computers. To do so, longitudinal data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) were analyzed. The results revealed that self-reported violent delinquency in adolescence was associated with a decreased probability of owning a computer and having an email account 10 to 12 years into the future. Additionally, measures of contact with the criminal justice system, low self-control, delinquent peers, and governmental public assistance were also associated with the probability of owning a computer and having an email account.

The Effects of Low Self-Control and Delinquent Peers on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Use in a Sample of Saudi Arabian Youth

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (13) ◽  
pp. 1569-1587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Beaver ◽  
Mohammed Said Al-Ghamdi ◽  
Ahmed Nezar Kobeisy ◽  
Fathiyah H. Alqurashi ◽  
Joseph A. Schwartz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Low Self Control ◽  
Delinquent Peers

Internet regression and the meaning of self

2021 ◽  
pp. 002581722098401
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar Sharma ◽  
Nitin Anand ◽  
Kalpana Srivastava ◽  
Shweta Sunil
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Real World ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Real ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Low Self Control

The internet provides a platform for expression of a new self that a user finds it difficult to achieve in the real world. This quality mediates disinhibited or regressive expression of self. The online disinhibited expression is also found to have to a direct correlation with a person’s self-concept, including their self-worth and self-control, which also contributes to lowering their social control through the social inadequacies they perceive themselves to have. The low self-control is being associated with engagement in bullying or cybercrime through online modalities. The report implicates for evolving intervention to manage cybercrimes from a psychological and legal perspective.

Low Self-Control of Emotions as an Antecedent of Self-Reported Physical Symptoms: A Longitudinal Perspective

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marja Kokkonen ◽  
Lea Pulkkinen ◽  
Taru Kinnunen
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Positive Direction ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
Low Self Control

The study was part of the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development, underway since 1968, in which children's low self-control of emotions was studied using teacher ratings at age 8 in terms of inattentiveness, shifting moods, aggression, and anxiety. The study was based on data from 112 women and 112 men who participated in the previous data collections at ages 8, 27, and 36. At age 27, the participants had been assessed in Neuroticism (N) using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire , and at age 36 they filled in several inventories measuring, among others, conscious and active attempts to repair negative emotions in a more positive direction as well as physical symptoms. The present study used structural equation modeling to test the hypothesis that personality characteristics indicating low self-control of emotions at ages 8 and 27 are antecedents of self-reported physical symptoms at age 36; and that this relationship is indirect, mediated by attempts to repair negative emotions in a more positive direction. The findings showed, albeit for men only, that inattentiveness at age 8 was positively related to self-reported physical symptoms at age 36 via high N at age 27 and low attempts to repair negative emotions at age 36. Additionally, N at age 27 was directly linked to self-reported physical symptoms at age 36. The mediation of an active attempt to repair negative emotions was not found for women. Correlations revealed, however, that shifting moods and aggression in girls were antecedents of self-reported physical symptoms in adulthood, particularly, pain and fatigue.

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