Capturing the Content of Adolescents' Facebook Communication

描述（由申请人提供）：这项探索性的发展性研究将捕捉和编码青少年在互联网上最受欢迎的社交网站Facebook上的活动内容。根据大型的全国性调查，73%的青少年（12 - 17岁）使用社交网站（Lenhart，珀塞尔，Smith，& Zickuhr，2010）; 51%的青少年每天查看社交网站，22%的人每天查看10次以上（常识媒体，2009）。将对参与一项正在进行的社会和身体攻击的起源和结果的纵向研究（NICHD R 01 HD 060995，社会攻击：成长和结果）的青少年样本进行面部交流和编码。这项多方法，多信息研究开始时，参与者是9岁，在三年级，并涉及参与者的社会攻击和受害，关系和心理调整的年度评估。三年前，在样本开始高中（9年级）之前的夏天，参与者被给予黑莓设备，其服务计划由调查人员支付，包括无限短信，互联网电子邮件访问，以及一个免费的服务计划。 语音通话分钟数有限。自2008年秋季以来，我们一直在捕捉这些黑莓设备上收发的所有短信和电子邮件的内容。在进行Face book交流的研究时，样本将是17或18岁的12年级学生（N = 200）。在这项为期两年的研究中，青少年参与者及其父母将被要求允许研究人员通过安装由Arkovi公司开发的Face book应用程序来访问青少年的Face book通信。Face book应用程序将捕获参与者的Face book通信内容：包括墙帖子，状态更新，收件箱和相册。所有的Facebook通信将被捕获，而不仅仅是在黑莓设备上。Face book内容将由Arkvoi存储，并由一家名为Global Relay的公司维护一个可搜索的、灵活的在线存档，以便以后进行编码和分析。第一个具体目标将是在Face book的背景下研究社会攻击和网络欺凌，以及Face book通信如何与离线社会攻击和受害有关。第二个具体目标将是调查Facebook活动与其他形式的电子通信之间的关系（即，文本消息、电子邮件），并调查不同形式的电子通信是否与父母、同龄人和浪漫伴侣的关系的积极和消极品质有关。第三个具体目标将是检查的数量和质量之间的关系的脸书通信和心理调整。在这项正在进行的纵向研究中增加了对Face book通信的拟议调查，这提供了一个独特的机会来研究Face book通信如何与青少年的社会攻击和受害，发展社会关系，以及在青少年过渡到远离家庭生活的发展时期的心理调整，其中可能出现精神病理学症状。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This exploratory, developmental study will capture and code the content of adolescents' activity on the most popular social networking site on the Internet, Face book. According to large, national surveys, 73% of teens (12 - 17) use social networking sites (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith, & Zickuhr, 2010); 51% of teens check social networking sites daily, and 22% check more than 10 times per day (Common Sense Media, 2009). Face book communication will be captured and coded for a sample of adolescents participating in an ongoing longitudinal study of origins and outcomes of social and physical aggression (NICHD R01 HD060995, Social Aggression: Growth and Outcomes). This multi-method, multi-informant study began when participants were 9 years old and in the 3rd grade and has involved yearly assessments of participants' social aggression and victimization, relationships, and psychological adjustment. Three years ago, in the summer before the sample started high school (9th grade), participants were given BlackBerry devices with service plans paid for by the investigators, including unlimited text messaging, internet access for email, and a limited number of voice minutes. Since the fall of 2008, we have been capturing the content of all text messaging and email sent and received on these BlackBerry devices. At the time of the proposed study of Face book communication, the sample will be 17 or 18 years old and in the 12th grade (N = 200). In each year of the proposed two year study, adolescent participants and their parents will be asked to grant permission for the investigators to access the adolescents' Face book communication by installing a Face book application developed by a company called Arkovi. The Face book application will capture the content of participants' Face book communication: including the wall posts, status updates, inbox, and photo albums. All Face book communication will be captured, not only that on the BlackBerry devices. Face book content will be stored by Arkvoi and maintained in a searchable, flexible online archive maintained by a company called Global Relay for later coding and analysis. The first specific aim will be to examine social aggression and cyber bullying in the context of Face book and how Face book communication relates to offline social aggression and victimization. The second specific aim will be to investigate relations between Face book activity and other forms of electronic communication (i.e., text messaging, email) and to investigate whether different forms of electronic communication relate to positive and negative qualities of relationships with parents, peers, and romantic partners. The third specific aim will be to examine relations between quantity and quality of Face book communication and psychological adjustment. Adding the proposed investigation of Face book communication to this ongoing longitudinal study provides a unique opportunity to examine how Face book communication relates to adolescents' social aggression and victimization, developing social relationships, and psychological adjustment in a developmental period in which youth are transitioning to living away from home and in which symptoms of psychopathology may emerge.