Today we celebrate the Safer Internet Day! It is an initiative to bring awareness to online safety, supported by the European Comission. As you might know from our research, it is a topic dear to our heart. That’s why we share our latest insights on the issues that adolescents face nowadays.

For years, anonymity has been used to both specify the unique character of online interaction and differentiate it from offline conditions. We are living in the age of social media, interact using our profiles, seeing continuing augmentations of online and offline social spaces. In these conditions, what does anonymity actually mean?

Hayriye Güleç and colleagues examined attitudes towards food and depressive symptoms in a group of LGBTIQ people from Turkey. The results were published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. In today's blog, you can read what Hayriye and colleagues found!

We proposed an integrative model synthesizing theories to explain the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on adolescents’ well-being (iMEW) - published in European Journal of Developmental Psychology!

Exposure to cyberhate, or encountering it as a bystander, is a problem that affects children and young people around the world. In a blog post, Marie Bedrošová and Natalie Terčová explain when digital skills can protect children from encountering cyberhate and when they can help.

Ever wondered about how adolescents seek online health information? And what factors are at play - could perceived trust in online health information, eHealth literacy and parental factors be important? Check out our new study!

In a new study, we examined situations where adolescents meet in person with someone they know only from the internet. We were interested in adolescents’ motives to attend such face-to-face meetings, how meetings attended for various reasons differ, and which meetings are more likely to be pleasant or unpleasant.

We published a new research report that maps cyberhate experiences of Czech adolescents and their parents’ and caregivers’ knowledge based on a sample of 3,087 Czech households collected in 2021.