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Lozano-Blasco, Raquel; Cortés-Pascual, Alejandra – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
Widespread use of the Internet in 21st century society is not risk-free. This paper studies the comorbidity of some problematic uses of Internet with depression in order to assess their correlation. With that aim, a meta-analysis of 19 samples obtained from 13 different studies (n=33,458) was carried out. The subjects of these studies are…
Descriptors: Internet, Depression (Psychology), Adolescents, Cultural Differences
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Defoe, Ivy N.; Semon Dubas, Judith; Somerville, Leah H.; Lugtig, Peter; van Aken, Marcel A. G. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the initiation and peak of many harmful risk-taking behaviors such as smoking, which is among the most addictive and deadliest behaviors. Generic metatheories like the theory of triadic influence (TTI) suggest that interrelated risk factors across multiple domains (i.e., intrapersonal and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Smoking, At Risk Persons, Addictive Behavior
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Gommans, Rob; Stevens, Gonneke W. J. M.; Bogt, Tom F. M. ter; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2016
The goal of this study was to examine behavioral norm effects in 2 peer contexts (classroom, school) on adolescent substance use (tobacco, alcohol, cannabis) and aggressive behaviors (bullying, physical fighting). Participants were 5,642 adolescents (M[subscript age] = 14.29 years, SD = 1.26; 49% boys). There were 3 hypotheses. First, behavioral…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Aggression, Bullying, Classroom Environment