Capturing the Content of Adolescents' Facebook Communication

描述(由申请者提供)：这项探索性的发展研究将捕捉和编码互联网上最受欢迎的社交网站Face Book上青少年活动的内容。根据大型全国性调查，73%的青少年(12-17岁)使用社交网站(Lenhart，Purcell，Smith和Zickuhr，2010)；51%的青少年每天查看社交网站，22%的青少年每天访问10次以上(Common Sense Media，2009)。将为参与正在进行的关于社会和身体攻击的起源和结果的纵向研究(NICHD R01 HD060995，社会攻击：成长和结果)的青少年样本捕获和编码面书交流。这项多方法、多信息的研究始于参与者9岁和3年级，包括对参与者的社交攻击和受害、人际关系和心理适应的年度评估。三年前，在样本开始上高中(九年级)之前的那个夏天，参与者收到了黑莓设备，这些设备带有由调查人员支付的服务计划，包括无限制的短信、电子邮件的互联网接入和 有限的语音分钟数。自2008年秋季以来，我们一直在捕获这些黑莓设备上发送和接收的所有文本消息和电子邮件的内容。在拟议的面书交流研究时，样本将是17或18岁，在12年级(N=200)。在拟议的两年研究中，青少年参与者和他们的父母将被要求允许调查人员通过安装由一家名为Arkovi的公司开发的面书应用程序来访问青少年的面书交流。Face Book应用程序将捕获参与者的Face Book通信内容：包括墙上的帖子、状态更新、收件箱和相册。所有的面书交流都将被捕获，而不仅仅是黑莓设备上的通信。脸书内容将由Arkvoi存储，并保存在一个可搜索的、灵活的在线档案中，该档案由一家名为Global Relay的公司维护，供以后编码和分析。第一个具体目标将是在脸书的背景下审查社交攻击和网络欺凌，以及脸书交流如何与线下社交攻击和受害有关。第二个具体目标将是调查脸书活动与其他形式的电子交流(即短信、电子邮件)之间的关系，并调查不同形式的电子交流是否与与父母、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考察面书交流的数量和质量与心理调整之间的关系。在这项正在进行的纵向研究中加入对面书交流的拟议调查，提供了一个独特的机会来检查面书交流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离家生活以及可能出现精神病态症状的发展时期的心理适应有关。

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.