Open AccessRisk Behaviour on the Internet in the Context of Loneliness in Adolescents
Author(s) -
Andrea Vašková,
Soňa Lovašová
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european journal of social science education and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-9563
pISSN - 2312-8429
DOI - 10.26417/531vvw51b
Subject(s) - loneliness , the internet , psychology , context (archaeology) , empirical research , social psychology , developmental psychology , internet privacy , computer science , world wide web , geography , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology
The aim of this paper at the theoretical level was to characterize risk behaviour on the Internet including its forms. In the theoretical part of the paper, the authors clarified, among other things, the issue of loneliness and outlined the most common causes of loneliness. The authors defined loneliness from the viewpoint of adolescence as a developmental period. At the empirical level, the aim of the authors was to identify differences in the incidence of risk behaviour on the Internet in adolescents in terms of their socio-demographic characteristics. Another goal was to point out the correlations between risk behaviour on the Internet and loneliness.