Adolescents’ Beliefs About Peers’ Engagement in an Online Self-Harm Challenge: Exploring the Role of Individual Characteristics Through a Latent Class Analysis

• Published in: Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
• Main Authors: Florio, Eleonora, Castelli, Ilaria
• Other Authors: Villani, Daniela, Sorgente, Angela, Riva, Giuseppe, Marchetti, Antonella, Massaro, Davide
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: beliefs; descriptive norms; Blue Whale; self-harm; adolescence; suicide; Settore M-PSI/01 - Psicologia Generale; Psi; Blue whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10446/148463; https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2019.0002

In the last decade considerable attention has been devoted to the possible contribution of social media, and the Internet generally, to instigating adolescents’ engagement in self-harm activities, which are considered the result of a combination of multidimensional variables, such as depression and...