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Online Risk Behaviors

Weisman, Jason E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375278989

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2013, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, Psychology, Clinical.
The widespread use of social network websites has made risky online behaviors salient to friends, family, officials, and potential employers. The present study was undertaken to investigate the potential of self-disclosure patterns, psychopathological personality characteristics, gender, and risky behaviors in the ethical, social, and health and safety domains to predict risky online behaviors. The Online Risky Behavior Questionnaire was developed to assess the amount of risky behavior online by 102 male and 73 female participants. Results of this study indicate that men are more likely than women to endorse engaging in risky behaviors online. For both men and women, taking ethical and health/safety risks, self-disclosing with more depth, and engaging in less impression management predicted risky online behaviors. However, for men, another predictor was antisocial personality characteristics. Women in the study were more likely to engage in impression management than were men. Women who were more likely to intend to self-disclose were also more likely to engage in risky social behaviors. New venues for social interactions offer the opportunities for new patterns of self-disclosure and risk-taking behaviors, and it is important for the psychological sciences to keep pace with the technological developments that inform our understanding of social behaviors. It is, therefore, suggested that future studies investigate the links between self-disclosure, socially-desirable reporting, gender differences, and risky online behaviors.
Susan Davis, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Lee Dixon, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Melissa Layman-Guadalupe, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
86 p.
Personality; Psychology; Social Psychology; Social Research; Technology
personality characteristics, psychopathological, online, behavior, self-disclosure, desirable reporting, impression management, risk taking, risk, risky, gender, Facebook, social network, social media

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  • Weisman, J. E. (2013). Online Risk Behaviors [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375278989

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Weisman, Jason. Online Risk Behaviors. 2013. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375278989.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Weisman, Jason. "Online Risk Behaviors." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375278989

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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