Risk Assessment of adolescents' virtual relations | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Social Work | ||||
| Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 1, June 2016, Page 14-39 PDF (918.15 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Empirical Articles | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejsw.2016.8758 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Hanaa F.A. Moubark | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Virtual relations are the result of membership of virtual communities. Because of its significance, inevitability, availability, diversity, confidentiality and invasive nature and risks among certain groups especially the adolescents, the present study aimed at assessing the risk of adolescents' virtual relations. The study's sample consisted of 96 internet addict adolescents. Two tools; Internet Addiction list and Risk List of Adolescents Virtual Relations, were used in the research. The results showed the diversity of adolescents' virtual relations risks including ethical, cultural, psychological, educational, health and family risks. They also showed that adolescents are more susceptible to psychological risk and less susceptible to behavioral risk and that there is a highly significant correlation between being at risk and the ability to manage it virtual relations and that the adolescents have different estimations of risks and high abilities to manage them, except for the educational risk. The majority of risks; 93.75% are of medium degree and the majority of adolescents; 71.88% have high ability to manage the risks and there are differences between risk types regardless the exposure/ manage status. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Risk- Risk Assessment; Virtual Relations | ||||
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