J 2023

Czech Adolescents’ Face-to-Face Meetings With People from the Internet : The Role of Adolescents’ Motives and Expectations

MÝLEK, Vojtěch, Lenka DĚDKOVÁ and Gustavo S. MESCH

Basic information

Original name

Czech Adolescents’ Face-to-Face Meetings With People from the Internet : The Role of Adolescents’ Motives and Expectations

Authors

MÝLEK, Vojtěch (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lenka DĚDKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Gustavo S. MESCH (376 Israel)

Edition

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, New York, Springer, 2023, 0047-2891

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50800 5.8 Media and communications

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

article - open access

Impact factor

Impact factor: 4.900 in 2022

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/23:00134016

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01697-z

UT WoS

000880228400001

Keywords in English

Adolescence; Online relationships; Face-to-face meetings; Motives; Expectation disconfirmation; Social compensation

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International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 12/2/2024 12:06, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Abstract

V originále

Research of face-to-face meetings between adolescents and people met online stands on untested assumptions that these meetings are uniform, and adolescents attend them to expand their social circle. It is also unclear what makes such meetings pleasant or unpleasant. This study examined meetings of 611 Czech adolescents (age 11–16, Mage = 14.04, SD = 1.67, 47.1% female). Face-to-face meetings attended with friendly, romantic, or instrumental motives differed from each other, emphasizing the need to investigate them separately. Pleasantness of meetings is closely related to disconfirmation of adolescents’ expectations. Unmet expectations related to unpleasant meetings, exceeded expectations to pleasant ones. While present findings uphold existing theories (e.g., social compensation), they also call for new theoretical perspectives for this common adolescents’ activity.

Links

GX19-27828X, research and development project
Name: Pohled do budoucnosti: Porozumění vlivu technologií na “well-being” adolescentů (Acronym: FUTURE)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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