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Osobnosť, depresivita a problematické používanie internetu

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Kopuničová V., Baumgartner F.

Psychologie a její kontexty

2016

vol. 7

issue 1

81-92

Problematic internet use (PIU) is considered as a relatively new area of risk taking behaviour, which deals with uncontrolled use of the Internet with negative outcomes (impact) on individuals (Caplan, 2010). This paper focuses on relationship between personality factors, depression and problematic internet use among students of secondary schools and universities in Ostrava region. The aim of the paper was to determine whether personality factors and depression predict problematic internet use among young students. Studies dealing with problematic internet use (Caplan, 2010; Young 1998; Davis, 2001 etc.) show that personality is one of the factor which may be associated with internet addiction or other forms of risk behaviour (Kolibáš, Novotný, 1996; Kopasová, 2000; Hemochová, Vaňková & Drlíková in Výrost & Slameník, 2001). Personality was measured by the questionnaire HEXACO (Ashton & Lee, 2009), depression was measured by a modified version of Beck Depression Inventory (M-BDI; Schmitt, Beckmann, Dusi, Maes, Schiller &Schonauer, 2003), the problematic internet use was measured by Generalized problematic internet use scale (GPIUS2; Caplan, 2010). The research sample consisted of 279 students of secondary schools and universities in Ostrava region. There were 200 (71.7%) high school students while the number of the university students was 79 (28.3%). The mean age of the sample was M = 18,5 years, SD = 2,73 and 79,9% were women. The results of Pearson correlation coefficients showed a positive relationship between depression, emotionality and PIU. Between the personality factors honesty-humility, extroversion and conscientiousness was a negative relationship with the PIU. Results of the regression analysis showed four factors - conscientiousness, depression, honesty-humility and emotions that explain 26% of the variance of the Problematic internet use among our research sample. The results confirm the importance of examining personality factors and depression in relation to the PIU. It can be said, that these findings confirm the importance of examining the modern global social issue - problematic Internet use among students at secondary school and universities. It is also important to pay attention to the occurrence of depressive symptoms in adulthood. Results can be used as a basis for development of preventive programs, education programs or trainings programs, which could help to raise awareness in the field of information technologies and their negative impact on the mental life. This study has several limits. There is unequal representation of men and women as well as greater representation of secondary

Risk behavior in electronic communication

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Vašutová M., Kopuničová V.

Bohemistyka

2016

vol. 16

issue 4

372 - 392

The paper deals with the issues of risk electronic communication and its negatives and consequences that entails. It also deals with cyber bullying as the most frequent form of electronic communication. Despite on considerable public and experts’ attention cyber bullying is still increasing. When you enter the word „cyber bullying” in Google, you may find nearly 9 million references about this topic. The direct help which can help to reduce cyber bullying is still unclear. Some of the studies dealing with these problems point to the fact that particularly teachers and parents don´t know how to deal with this and also how to help. They have problem to recognize the signals, they don´t know the exact process that would eliminate the cyberbullying and also protect the protagonist of cyber bullying. This paper presents a summary of the findings of the risk of electronic communication, the excessive problematic use of Internet, the effects of cyberbullying and prevention programs and organizations to help in resolving this issue.

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