- Title Pages
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- One Theoretical framework for children's internet use
- Two Methodological framework: the EU Kids Online project
- Three Cognitive interviewing and responses to EU Kids Online survey questions
- Four Which children are fully online?
- Five Varieties of access and use
- Six Online opportunities
- Seven Digital skills in the context of media literacy
- Eight Between public and private: privacy in social networking sites
- Nine Experimenting with the self online: a risky opportunity
- Ten Young Europeans' Online environments: a typology of user practices
- Eleven Bullying
- Twelve ‘Sexting’: the exchange of sexual messages online among European youth
- Thirteen Pornography
- Fourteen Meeting new contacts online
- Fifteen Excessive internet use among European children
- Sixteen Coping and resilience: children's responses to online risks
- Seventeen Agents of mediation and sources of safety awareness: a comparative overview
- Eighteen The effectiveness of parental mediation
- Nineteen Effectiveness of teachers' and peers' mediation in supporting opportunities and reducing risks online
- Twenty Understanding digital inequality: the interplay between parental socialisation and children's development
- Twenty-one Similarities and differences across Europe
- Twenty-Two Mobile access: different users, different risks, different consequences?
- Twenty-Three Explaining vulnerability to risk and harm
- Twenty-Four Relating online practices, negative experiences and coping strategies
- Twenty-five Towards a general model of determinants of risk and safety
- Twenty-Six Policy implications and recommendations: now what?
- Appendix: Key variables used in EU Kids Online analyses
- References
- Index
Coping and resilience: children's responses to online risks
Coping and resilience: children's responses to online risks
- Chapter:
- (p.205) Sixteen Coping and resilience: children's responses to online risks
- Source:
- Children, risk and safety on the internet
- Author(s):
Sofie Vandoninck
Leen d'Haenens
Katia Segers
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
When exposure to online risks results in a negative experience, children respond in different ways to this feeling of being upset. This chapter investigates which children are more vulnerable, as they feel upset more intensively. While online bullying provokes most harm, children seem less bothered seeing sexual images (content risk). Younger children and those with little self-efficacy or psychological problems feel more intensively upset, and girls are more sensitive to sexual risks. This chapter also looks into children's coping responses when they feel upset after exposure to online risks. The chapter distinguishes between fatalistic, communicative and proactive coping strategies. It concludes that children identified as more vulnerable are more likely to adopt a passive or fatalistic approach, while self-confident children seem to tackle the problem more proactively. Girls and younger children are more communicative. Children higher on the ladder of online opportunities will adopt more online proactive coping strategies such as deleting disturbing messages or blocking the sender. These results are an indication for a double jeopardy effect: children who experience difficulties offline seem to find it more difficult to cope with online risks.
Keywords: Coping strategies, Online resilience, Online risks, Fatalistic coping approach, Communicative coping strategies, Proactive coping strategies
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- Title Pages
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- One Theoretical framework for children's internet use
- Two Methodological framework: the EU Kids Online project
- Three Cognitive interviewing and responses to EU Kids Online survey questions
- Four Which children are fully online?
- Five Varieties of access and use
- Six Online opportunities
- Seven Digital skills in the context of media literacy
- Eight Between public and private: privacy in social networking sites
- Nine Experimenting with the self online: a risky opportunity
- Ten Young Europeans' Online environments: a typology of user practices
- Eleven Bullying
- Twelve ‘Sexting’: the exchange of sexual messages online among European youth
- Thirteen Pornography
- Fourteen Meeting new contacts online
- Fifteen Excessive internet use among European children
- Sixteen Coping and resilience: children's responses to online risks
- Seventeen Agents of mediation and sources of safety awareness: a comparative overview
- Eighteen The effectiveness of parental mediation
- Nineteen Effectiveness of teachers' and peers' mediation in supporting opportunities and reducing risks online
- Twenty Understanding digital inequality: the interplay between parental socialisation and children's development
- Twenty-one Similarities and differences across Europe
- Twenty-Two Mobile access: different users, different risks, different consequences?
- Twenty-Three Explaining vulnerability to risk and harm
- Twenty-Four Relating online practices, negative experiences and coping strategies
- Twenty-five Towards a general model of determinants of risk and safety
- Twenty-Six Policy implications and recommendations: now what?
- Appendix: Key variables used in EU Kids Online analyses
- References
- Index