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A Lifestyle-Routine Activity Theory (LRAT) Approach to Cybercrime Victimization: An Empirical Assessment of SNS Lifestyle Exposure Activities

  • Jihae Suh;Jiseon Choe;Jinsoo Park
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.53-71
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    • 2020
  • The Internet and all of its possibilities and applications have changed individuals' lifestyles in relation to socializing, working, and how they spend their leisure time. Social networking sites (SNSs), such as Facebook or Instagram, are ideal settings for interacting with others but, unfortunately, they are also ideal settings for motivated offenders to commit cybercrimes. Thus SNS users may be more vulnerable to cybercrime. The purpose of this study is to investigate the occurrence of cybercrime victimization, specifically cyber-harassment, cyber-impersonation, and hacking. Self-report surveys collected from a sample of 147 respondents were examined using the moderated multiple regression analysis and a logistic regression analysis to determine possible relationships between SNS lifestyle exposure activities and cybercrime victimization. The results indicate moderate support for the application of lifestyle-routine activity theory (LRAT) to cybercrime victimization. Possible educational and managerial implications, as well as suggestions for future research, are discussed.

A Longitudinal Study of Bullying Victimization and Depression: Mediating Effects of Self-esteem and Self-resilience (학교폭력피해경험이 우울에 미치는 종단적 연구: 자아존중감과 자아탄력성의 매개효과)

  • Lee, Hanju
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.274-283
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effects of self-esteem and self-resilience while identifying the relationship between bullying victimization (being bullied) and depression based on a longitudinal study design. Methods: Participants were adolescent cohort of 1,971 middle school students participating in 2013 and 2014 Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey conducted by National Youth Policy Institute. Data were analyzed by Pearson's Correlation and regression. Results: The major findings are as follows. First, self-esteem and self-resilience were positively related to each other and negatively related to depression and bullying victimization. Second, bullying victimization effected the level of depression of adolescents and self-esteem played a mediating role between bullying victimization and depression while self-resilience did not. Conclusion: The results suggest that emotional factors continue to play an important role in promoting psychological adjustment of victims of bullying. Therefore, interventions are more likely to be successful if they focus on emotional skills development of adolescents.

The Influence of Human Rights Sensitivity and the Nursing Work Environment on Workplace Bullying Victimization among Nurses in Small- and Medium-Sized Hospitals (중소병원 간호사의 인권감수성과 간호근무환경이 직장 내 괴롭힘 피해에 미치는 영향)

  • Cho, Eun-Kyung;Kim, Moon-Jeong
    • The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.27-38
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of human rights sensitivity and nursing work environment on workplace bullying victimization among nurses in small- and medium-sized hospitals. Methods: The participants were 255 nurses from 5 general hospitals in Busan. A dataset was collected using a structured self-reporting questionnaire during the month of July 2018. The data were analyzed with SPSS WIN 23.0 software (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) using independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis. Results: Nursing work environment showed negative correlation with workplace bullying victimization. Being a witness to bullying, organizational support, head nurse's leadership, and relationships with peers were found to influence workplace bullying victimization, and these 4 variables explained 37% of workplace bullying victimization. Conclusions: Formal procedures for cases of bullying and improvements in the leadership of head nurses and peer relationships are crucial to reducing workplace bullying victimization among nurses in small- and medium-sized hospitals. Hospital executives' efforts to provide sufficient physical and human resources for nursing services and to improve the welfare of nurses are also needed.

The Moderating Effect of Teacher-Child Relationship on the Relation between Child's Shyness and Peer Victimization (남녀 유아의 수줍음과 또래괴롭힘 피해 간 관계에 대한 교사-유아 관계의 중재효과)

  • Kwon, Yeon Hee
    • Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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    • v.10 no.5
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    • pp.25-45
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    • 2014
  • This study examined the moderating role of teacher-child relationship on the relation between children's shyness and peer victimization. Participants were 200 children(97 boys, 103 girls; recruited from classes with 5-6 year olds) and their kindergarten teachers. The teachers completed rating scales to measure the children's peer victimization, shyness and teacher-child relationship. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-tests, correlations, and hierarchical multiple regressions. Boys and girls were analyzed separately. Results showed that children's shyness had a positive relation to their peer victimization. Teacher-child relationship significantly related to children's peer victimization. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that the interaction of boys' shyness and teacher-child closeness predicted boys' peer victimization. Boys' shyness, whose teachers demonstrated the lowest level of teacher-child closeness, was significantly associated with their peer victimization. Boys' shyness had a significant relation to their peer victimization, especially for the highest level of teacher-child conflictual relationship. Results are discussed in terms of the role of teachers to shy boys' peer victimization.

The Effects of Parental Abuse and Peer Victimization on Adolescent's Suicidal Ideation -The Mediating Pathway of Interpersonal Needs and Hopelessness- (청소년 자살생각에 대한 부모학대와 또래괴롭힘의 영향에서 대인관계내재화와 절망감의 매개효과)

  • Hong, Na-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.64 no.1
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    • pp.151-175
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    • 2012
  • This paper designed a mediating pathways model on how parental abuse and peer victimization lead to the development of suicidal ideation through the mediating variables of interpersonal needs and a hopelessness. The development is sure to help reduce adolescent suicidal ideation and, in turn, seek for distinct mediating methods to help teens with suicidal ideas. To validate the suggested model, this paper administered a questionnaire to 768 students in their 10th, 11th and 12th grades of high schools in Incheon, and then analyzed the structural equation model before confirming the research hypothesis by adopting the tools of SPSS 17.0 and AMOS 18.0. The result clearly demonstrates that parental abuse is one of the most influential factors in developing suicidal ideation. Peer victimization, however, had no direct bearing on suicide ideation, only indirectly affecting through the mediating variable of interpersonal needs. In addition, peer victimization had indirect effects on suicidal ideation through a sequential intervention of variables from interpersonal needs to a hopelessness. Based on the above results, this research has following implications: First, this paper analyzed the mediating pathways of youth suicidal ideation resulting from parental abuse and peer victimization. The result could possibly help find preventive measures and effective mediating approaches to save the lives of young people at risk of committing suicide. Secondly, this study proved that the interpersonal needs, a relatively new concept hardly introduced in previous studies, is a significant predictive factor for suicide ideation, serving as an intervening variable of developing suicidal ideation among young people who have suffered parental abuse and peer victimization.

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A empirical Study of Secondary Victimization Among Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents (성폭력 피해 아동·청소년이 2차 피해로 인지한 경험 연구)

  • Chae, Hyun Suk
    • Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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    • v.68 no.1
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    • pp.117-140
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study is to explore in depth experience of child secondary victimization after sexual violence incident. In order to achieve this study goal, this study contact six child who experienced sexual abuse and acknowledged secondary victimization, and collected data by indepth interview about 2~4 times. collected data was analysed by Colaizzi's analysis method. The results of this study can draw six subcategories. Six subcategories are 'school to collapse protective device', 'family not to depend on' 'judicial authority to fester a wound' 'assailant to rub salt into a wound', and the people around him merely looked on. secondary victimization of child sex abuse victims signify experience to give menace such as huge blow after first victimization. Based on result of analysis, this study suggest and implication of social welfare to prevent Secondary Victimization of sexual violence victim child.

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The Relations among Social Withdrawal, Peer Victimization, and Depression in Middle School Students: The Moderating Effect of Classroom-level Discrimination (중학생의 사회적 위축, 또래괴롭힘 피해, 우울 간의 관계: 학급별 차별수준의 조절효과)

  • Choi, Eun-ji;Song, Keng-hie;Lee, Seung-yeon
    • Korean Journal of School Psychology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.249-267
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    • 2021
  • This study examined how social withdrawal as an individual factor and discrimination as a contextual factor contributed to depression caused by peer victimization among middle school students. Self-reported data of 1,611 students from 86 classrooms in 7 middle schools was analyzed, using multilevel path analysis. The results indicate that peer victimization had a significant partial mediating effect on the relation between social withdrawal and depression at the individual level. Social withdrawal had a direct positive effect on depression as well as an indirect positive effect on depression via high levels of peer victimization. Discrimination also positively predicted peer victimization at the classroom level. Moreover, classroom-level discrimination moderated the individual-level relations between social withdrawal and peer victimization. The relation between social withdrawal and peer victimization was much stronger as the levels of discrimination in the classroom were higher. These findings shed light on the importance of considering both individual and contextual factors when intervening to prevent peer victimization.

The Effects of Emotion Regulation, Parent Related Variables and Victimization by Peer Harassment on Behavioral Problems among Children (아동의 정서조절능력과 부모변인 및 또래에 의한 괴롭힘이 행동문제에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Kyung-Nim
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.47 no.7
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2009
  • This study examined emotion regulation, parental support, supervision, psychological control and marital conflict and victimization by peer harassment that affect children’s behavioral problems. The sample consisted of 412 fifth and sixth grade children. Statistics and methods used for the data analysis were percentage, frequency, Cronbach’s alpha, Factor analysis, t-test, Pearson’s correlation, and multiple Regression. Several major results were found from the analysis. First, girls had more internalized behavioral problems than boys. No sex difference was found in externalized behavioral problems. Second, boys’ and girls’ internalized and externalized behavioral problems showed positive correlations with maladaptive emotion regulation and parental psychological control. Boys’ and girls’ internalized behavioral problems and girls’ externalized behavioral problems showed negative correlations with parental support, but positive correlations with parentral marital conflict and victimization by peer harassment. Girls’ internalized and externalized behavioral problems showed negative correlations with parental supervision. Third, maladaptive emotion regulation was the most important variable predicting boys’ and girls’ externalized behavioral problems and girls’ internalized behavioral problems. Victimization by peer harassment was the most important variable predicting boys’ internalized behavioral problems.

Individual Risk and Social Risk as Interacting Determinants of Peer Victimization (개인적인 요인과 사회적인 요인에 따른 직접적인 괴롭힘과 관계에서의 따돌림)

  • Lee, Jeom Sook;Yoo, An Jin
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.107-121
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    • 1999
  • This hypothesis of this study was that individual risk variables (behavior problems) compounded by social risk variables (peer rejection) would place children at risk for victimization by peers. Subjects were 385 boys and girls in 3rd and 5th grade. Data were collected with questionnaires. As predicted, behavior problems (both internalizing and externalizing) were more strongly related to victimization when children were rejected by peers than when they were accepted. These results illustrate the principle that individual risk variables depend on social context.

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The Study on the Bully/Victim Problems in Korean Junior/Middle Schools (청소년의 공격성과 공격희생에 관한연구)

  • 이춘아
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.67-78
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study were 1) to examine the effect of the socio-demographic variables on the adolescent's aggressiveness and victimization, 2)to find the relation among maternal behaviors adolescent's self-esteem aggressive-ness and victimization 3) to analyze the influences of these variables on adolescent's aggressiveness. The subjects were 478 boys and girls attending at junior/middle school in kwang-ju city. Statistics used for data analysis were frequencies means standard deviation Perason's correlation, F-test stepwise multiple regression analysis, major findings were as follows; 1. There were significant differences in Adolescent's aggression and victimiza-tion due to the sex of adolescents and school achievement. 2. There were significant relationships among maternal behaviors adolescents' self-esteem aggression and victimization. 3. The variables influencing adolescent's aggression were maternal authoritarian behavior school achievement the sex of adolescent self esteem and victimization.

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