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Cyber-aggression and Problematic Behavior in Adolescence: Is There Connection?

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The article presents the results of a study aimed at the analysis of the relations between cyber-aggression and problematic behavior in adolescence. According to K.C. Runions’s theory of cyber-aggression four types of online aggressive behavior were studied: impulsive-appetitive, impulsive-aversive, controlled-appetitive, controlled-aversive [1]. Data collection was carried out with Cyber-Aggression Typology Questionnaire, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Coping strategy indicator, Questionnaire for the assessment of the adolescents’ involvement in Internet communication. The study involved 130 adolescents aged 10–16 years, 56.2% female. The results suggest that the appetitive cyber-aggression is more common in adolescence than aversive forms in spite of increasing manifestations of controlled-aversive cyber-aggression in older adolescence. Problematic behavior is a predictor of appetitive cyber-aggression only for older adolescents (15–16 years old), but these relations are not found for younger adolescents (10–12 years old). This fact is discussed according to the idea about cyber-aggression as a form of social experimentation in younger adolescence.

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Antipina, S., Bakhvalova, E., Miklyaeva, A. (2019). Cyber-aggression and Problematic Behavior in Adolescence: Is There Connection?. In: Alexandrov, D., Boukhanovsky, A., Chugunov, A., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O., Musabirov, I. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1038. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37858-5_54

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