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Perasso, Giulia; Carone, Nicola; Barone, Lavinia – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
The present study investigated the antecedents of cyberbullying victimization and addressed the commonalities and differences between visual and written forms of cyberbullying victimization among 3172 Italian adolescents (51.6% male, M[subscript age] = 13.74 years, SD = 1.70) who participated in the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Adolescents
Bourchtein, Elizaveta; Langberg, Joshua M.; Cusick, Caroline N.; Breaux, Rosanna P.; Smith, Zoe R.; Becker, Stephen P. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Objectives: This study used a multi-informant approach to examine differences in types and rates of technology used by adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), associations between technology use and sleep/daytime sleepiness, and whether technology use was differentially related to sleep/daytime sleepiness in…
Descriptors: Computer Use, Sleep, Adolescents, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Ackerman, Lyn Kajiwara – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Video games are a growing multi-billion dollar industry. Pew Internet & American Life Project (2008) reported that 97 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 years play computer, web, portable, or console games. Of the various genres that were reported, 36 percent of teens played role playing games and 21 percent played massively multiplayer online…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Games, Adolescents, Mixed Methods Research
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Bajovic, Mirjana – Educational Media International, 2013
In this study of 109 adolescents from the eighth grade of seven public elementary schools in Canada, the relationship between adolescents' violent video game playing patterns, habits and attitudes, and their levels of moral reasoning was investigated. The results suggested that playing violent video games in general was a very popular activity…
Descriptors: Violence, Video Games, Moral Values, Moral Development
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Alvermann, Donna E.; Hagood, Margaret C.; Heron-Hruby, Alison; Hughes, Preston; Williams, Kevin B.; Yoon, Jun-Chae – Reading Psychology, 2007
The purpose of this study was to explore whether or not adolescents who are deemed underachievers and who struggle to read school-assigned textbooks will engage with popular culture texts of their own choosing (e.g., magazines, comics, TV, video games, music CDs, graffiti, e-mail, and other Internet-mediated texts). The 60 student participants,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Cartoons, Video Games, Urban Schools
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Krahe, Barbara; Moller, Ingrid – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
The relationship was examined between exposure to and preference for violent electronic games and aggressive norms as well as hostile attributional style. Following a pilot study to sample widely used electronic games varying in violent content, 231 eighth-grade adolescents in Germany reported their use of and attraction to violent electronic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Norms, Gender Differences
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Gentile, Douglas, A.; Lynch, Paul, J.; Linder, Jennifer Ruh; Walsh, David, A. – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
Video games have become one of the favorite activities of American children. A growing body of research is linking violent video game play to aggressive cognitions, attitudes, and behaviors. The first goal of this study was to document the video games habits of adolescents and the level of parental monitoring of adolescent video game use. The…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Video Games, Violence