Online Delinquent Behaviors of Adolescents: Parents as Potential "Influencers"?

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2023-10-30 DOI:10.1177/0306624X231206521

Inge B Wissink, Jessica J Asscher, Geert-Jan Stams

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Abstract

In this study we examined whether aspects of parental monitoring of adolescents' online behavior (rules regarding time spent on the internet, rules regarding content of internet use, frequency of communication, and quality of communication about internet use) are related to different kinds of online delinquent behaviors (sexting, spreading viruses, DDoS attacking, hacking, and online threatening) and whether the level of adolescents' problematic (addictive) internet use mediates these relations. In regular Dutch high schools 1,009 adolescents filled out an online questionnaire (with adjusted versions of the ISPP, PIUQ, and the Dutch Youth Crime Monitor). Descriptive statistics showed that, in general, parents do not seem to monitor adolescents' online behavior to a great extent. Furthermore, results of logistic regression analyses and mediation tests showed that fewer rules about online time, more rules about online content, and a good quality of parent-adolescent communication about online behavior are all associated with lower problematic internet use, which in turn is associated with lower odds of several online delinquent behaviors (mediation). Moreover, parental handling of rules about online content is also directly associated with lower odds of spreading viruses, hacking, and online threat.

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青少年网络犯罪行为：父母是潜在的“影响者”？

在这项研究中，我们检验了父母对青少年网络行为的监控方面（关于在互联网上花费时间的规则、关于互联网使用内容的规则、通信频率和关于互联网使用的通信质量）是否与不同类型的网络犯罪行为（色情短信、传播病毒、DDoS攻击、黑客攻击和网络威胁）有关以及青少年有问题（成瘾）的互联网使用水平是否介导了这些关系。在荷兰普通高中，1009名青少年填写了一份在线问卷（包括ISPP、PIUQ和荷兰青少年犯罪监测机构的调整版）。描述性统计数据显示，一般来说，父母似乎没有在很大程度上监控青少年的网络行为。此外，逻辑回归分析和中介测试的结果表明，关于在线时间的规则更少，关于在线内容的规则更多，以及父母和青少年关于在线行为的良好沟通质量，都与问题互联网使用率较低有关，而这反过来又与几种网络违法行为（中介）的发生几率较低有关。此外，父母对网络内容规则的处理也与降低病毒、黑客攻击和网络威胁的几率直接相关。

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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Multiple-

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6.70%

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