Prevention of online risk behaviour in schools with regard to the socio-educational activity of the school social pedagogue

Abstract

Currently, online risk behaviour is one of the negative socio-pathological phenomena identi ied by various research studies and surveys of experts in Slovakia and abroad. The Europe-wide survey EU Kids Online (Izrael et al., 2020) investigated the online experience of children aged 9–16. The survey focused on the occurrence of cyberbullying among pupils, contact with harmful content, the issue of data misuse, excessive use of the Internet, sexting, etc. Compared to other countries in Europe, Slovakia is one of the countries with a lower level of children’s access to the Internet and at the same time with a lower level of risk experience of children and adolescents in the online environment. The results of the research showed that one in ive young people aged 9–16 spend more than 4 hours a day on the Internet, and 47% of children use the Internet daily to communicate with family or friends. Most children who spend more than 7 hours on the Internet were between the ages of 13 and 14, and there were no signi icant differences in the gender of the pupils. Almost 65% of children and adolescents visit social networks daily. 84% of children and adolescents use the Internet for school-related activities at least once a week. 55% of children and adolescents use the Internet to play online games every day (Izrael et al., 2020).