Online Activities and Psychological Well-Being among Youth
A special issue of Youth (ISSN 2673-995X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 4849
Special Issue Editor
Interests: psychological well-being; self-systems; parent-child relations; cross-cultural differences; online activities; multivariate longitudinal data analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Today’s youth are digital natives who live their lives online from a young age. Online activities such as social networking, chatting, sexting, dating, gaming, and shopping have become an integral part of the daily lives of youth (particularly during the current COVID-19 crisis), but can pose multiple psychological risks to them. While young people or digital natives enjoy a strong sense of autonomy and competence and develop a sense of self, identity, community, and belonging through their intensive online activities on a daily basis, this could impose a massive burden of cost on youth, family, school, and society. However, our scholarly understanding of obsessive online activities among youth and their causes, consequences, correlates, and interventions over time and across contexts remains rudimentary and has lagged behind the technologies to which they are related. Keeping these facts in mind, the proposed Special Issue will attempt to address these timely and crucial issues and will provide in-depth insights into the phenomenon of online communities of youth in the digital era. Given the correlational nature of much of the extant literature, this Special Issue particularly welcomes empirical studies that explicitly investigate causal or even transactional relationships between a range of online activities and psychological well-being in youth and/or identify relevant mediators and moderators of these relationships. From a practical standpoint, key findings from the Special Issue will provide insightful implications for concerns, tensions, and conflicts surrounding youth online activities in the home, school, and public spaces and will offer several practical implications for prevention and intervention efforts to promote psychological well-being among heavy online users at individual, family, school, and community levels across contexts.
Dr. Jeong Jin Yu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smartphone use
- Internet addiction
- problematic Internet use
- Internet gaming disorder
- sexting
- online dating
- social networking
- cyberbullying
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