Digital skills, risks and wellbeing among European children : Report on (f)actors that explain online acquisition, cognitive, physical, psychological and social wellbeing, and the online resilience of children and young people

MASCHERONI, Giovanna, Davide CINO, Jakub MIKUŠKA, David LACKO and David ŠMAHEL. Digital skills, risks and wellbeing among European children : Report on (f)actors that explain online acquisition, cognitive, physical, psychological and social wellbeing, and the online resilience of children and young people. Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2020, 53 pp. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4274602.

Basic information

• Original name: Digital skills, risks and wellbeing among European children : Report on (f)actors that explain online acquisition, cognitive, physical, psychological and social wellbeing, and the online resilience of children and young people
• Authors: MASCHERONI, Giovanna, Davide CINO, Jakub MIKUŠKA (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), David LACKO (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and David ŠMAHEL (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Leuven, 53 pp. 2020.
• Publisher: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Research report
• Field of Study: 50800 5.8 Media and communications
• Country of publisher: Belgium
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: full-text
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/20:00117151
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4274602
• Keywords in English: digital skills; children and young people; secondary data analysis
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

This report is based on further analysis of the EU Kids Online data collected across 19 European countries in 2017–19 (Smahel et al., 2020), and aims to identify the antecedents and consequences of digital skills among children. More specifically, in Section 3, "The antecedents of digital skills", we tested the relationship between individual characteristics (age and gender), social characteristics (socioeconomic status [SES] and parental mediation), country characteristics, information and communications technology (ICT) use and skills. In Section 4, "The consequences of digital skills", we examined the relations between skills, risks and opportunities. The report is aimed at outlining gaps in the evidence base and in our current knowledge of digital skills acquisition, in order to inform future research in this area.

Links

• 870612, interní kód MU: Name: Youth Skills (Acronym: ySKILLS)

Investor: European Union, Youth Skills, Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective Societies (Societal Challenges)