%0 Journal Article
%A Martinez-Ferrer, Belen
%A Moreno Ruiz, David
%A Musitu Ochoa, Gonzalo
%T Are Adolescents Engaged in the Problematic Use of Social Networking Sites More Involved in Peer Aggression and Victimization?
%D 2018
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10433/5643
%X The problematic use of social networking sites is becoming a major public healthconcern. Previous research has found that adolescents who engage in a problematicuse of social networking sites are likely to show maladjustment problems. However,little is known about its links with peer aggression and victimization. The main goalof this study was to analyze the relationship between problematic use of online socialnetworking sites, peer aggression ¿overt vs. relational and reactive vs. instrumental¿, andpeer victimization ¿overt physical and verbal, and relational¿, taking into account genderand age (in early and mid-adolescence). Participants were selected using randomizedcluster sampling considering school and class as clusters. A battery of instrumentswas applied to 1,952 adolescents¿ secondary students from Spain (Andalusia) (50.4%boys), aged 11 to 16 (M = 14.07, SD = 1.39). Results showed that girls and 14¿16adolescents were more involved in a problematic use of online social networking sites.Furthermore, adolescents with high problematic use of online social networking siteswere more involved in overt¿reactive and instrumental¿and relational¿reactive andinstrumental¿aggressive behaviors, and self-reported higher levels of overt¿physicaland verbal¿and relational victimization. Even though boys indicated higher levels ofall types of victimization, girls with high problematic use of online social networkingsites scored the highest on relational victimization. Relating to age, early adolescents(aged 11¿14) with higher problematic use of online social networking sites reported thehighest levels of overt verbal and relational victimization. Overall, results suggested theco-occurrence of problematic use of online social networking sites, peer aggression andvictimization. In addition, results showed the influence that gender and age had on peervictimization. This study highlights the continuity between offline and online domains withregard to maladjustment problems in adolescence.
%K online social networking sites
%K problematic use of Internet
%K peer aggression
%K peer victimization
%K adolescence
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