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White, Claire M., Gummerum, Michaela and Hanoch, Yaniv (2015) Adolescents’ and young adults’ online risk taking : the role of gist and verbatim representations. Risk Analysis, 35 (8). pp. 1407-1422. doi:10.1111/risa.12369 ISSN 02724332.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12369
Abstract
Young people are exposed to and engage in online risky activities, such as disclosing personal information and making unknown friends online. Little research has examined the psychological mechanisms underlying young people’s online risk taking. Drawing on Fuzzy Trace Theory, we examined developmental differences in adolescents’ and young adults’ online risk taking and assessed whether differential reliance on gist representations (based on vague, intuitive knowledge) or verbatim representations (based on specific, factual knowledge) could explain online risk taking. One hundred and twenty two adolescents (ages 13-17) and 172 young adults (ages 18-24) were asked about their past online risk taking behaviour, intentions to engage in future risky online behaviour, and gist and verbatim representations. Adolescents had significantly higher intentions to take online risks than young adults. Past risky online behaviours were positively associated with future intentions to take online risks for adolescents and negatively for young adults. Gist representations about risk negatively correlated with intentions to take risks online in both age groups, while verbatim representations positively correlated with online risk intentions, particularly among adolescents. Our results provide novel insights about the underlying mechanisms involved in adolescent and young adults’ online risk taking, suggesting the need to tailor the representation of online risk information to different age groups.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Teenagers , Internet and teenagers, Internet and teenagers -- Safety measures, Internet and youth, Internet and youth -- Safety measures, Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence, Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Risk Analysis | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Society for Risk Analysis | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 02724332 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | August 2015 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 35 | ||||||||
| Number: | 8 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1407-1422 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/risa.12369 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: White, C. M., Gummerum, M. and Hanoch, Y. (2015), Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Online Risk Taking: The Role of Gist and Verbatim Representations. Risk Analysis, 35: 1407-1422. which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12369. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions." | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Society for Risk Analysis | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 October 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 October 2019 |
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