Adolescents' offline meetings with online contacts: Longitudinal relationships between the behavior and perceptions of risks, benefits, and peer involvement
Vojtěch Mýlek, Ainize Martínez‐Soto, Lenka Dedkova · 2026
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Vojtěch Mýlek and co-authors tracked how teens judge meeting online contacts in person in this 2026 study. The team surveyed 2,500 Czech adolescents, aged eleven to sixteen, three times over a span of time. They asked how risky and how rewarding the teens saw such meetings, and how common they took them to be among friends.
Seeing meetings as more dangerous in outcome led teens to meet less; seeing likely benefits led them to meet more. Experience fed back the other way: teens who met more came to see more benefit and less danger. Feeling that a meeting might happen raised meeting counts, against the team's guess. Friends' habits, oddly, predicted nothing. Prevention work must handle this two-way pull.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vojtěch Mýlek, Ainize Martínez‐Soto, Lenka Dedkova |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |