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Download full textLiliana Cuervo-Sánchez, Sandra; Etxague, Itxaro – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2023
Access to youth culture by adolescents has changed as new communication technologies have found new ways of offering media content to viewers. Adolescents today access more content more frequently. However, the greater their exposure, the higher the likelihood of this leading to risk behaviors such as access to pornography, plagiarism, piracy and…
Descriptors: Internet, Pornography, Plagiarism, Males
Direct linkNikolopoulou, Kleopatra; Gialamas, Vasilis – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
This paper regards a study aiming to investigate secondary school pupils' attitudes regarding mobile phone possible dependence. A 26-item questionnaire was administered to 504 pupils aged 12-18 years old, in Greece. Around half of the sample reported perceptions linked to the social motivational aspect of the mobile phones (peer dependence), phone…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
Stavropoulos, Vasilis; Alexandraki, Kiriaki; Motti-Stefanidi, Frosso – Journal of Adolescence, 2013
This study aims: a) to estimate the prevalence of internet addiction among adolescents of urban and rural areas in Greece, b) to examine whether the Internet Addiction Test cut-off point is applicable to them and c) to investigate the phenomenon's association with academic achievement. Participants were 2090 adolescents (mean age 16, 1036 males,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Addictive Behavior, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Andreou, Eleni; Svoli, Hionia – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2013
This study examined how internet users' psychological characteristics, amount of internet use and demographic factors contribute to particular dimensions of internet addiction. The sample consisted of 384 adolescents, ranging in age from 15 to 18 years. Participants were asked to complete the Internet Addiction Test (IAT), measures of Locus of…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Adolescents, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Stavropoulos, Vasilis; Kuss, Daria; Griffiths, Mark; Motti-Stefanidi, Frosso – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2016
Over the last decade, research on Internet addiction (IA) has increased. However, almost all studies in the area are cross-sectional and do not examine the context in which Internet use takes place. Therefore, a longitudinal study examined the role of conscientiousness (as a personality trait) and classroom hostility (as a contextual factor) in…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adolescent Attitudes, Internet, Addictive Behavior
Tamvakas, Ioannis; Amos, Amanda – Health Education Research, 2010
Greece has the highest smoking prevalence in the European Union, with adolescents having high levels of exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS). In July 2009, national smokefree legislation was implemented in Greece. This study explored Greek young people's attitudes to smoking, SHS and the impending legislation. Semi-structured qualitative interviews…
Descriptors: Smoking, Negative Attitudes, Risk, Young Adults
