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Orig. title: Młodzi Cyfrowi

Engl. transl.: Young Digital

Study details

Year: 2018
Scope: National
Countries: Poland
Methodology: Empirical research – Quantitative
Methods of data collection: Online quantitative methods (e.g. Online survey)
Researched Groups: Children
Children Ages: Kids (6-10 Years old); Pre-adolescents (11-13 Years old); Adolescents (14-18 Years old)
Funder: Fundacja "Dbam o Mój Zasięg"
Funder Types: Foundation
Consents: Consent obtained from parents; Consent obtained from teachers / caretakers; Consent obtained from school officials / principal
Informed Consent: Consent obtained
Ethics: Ethical considerations not mentioned
URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342171608_Mlodzi_Cyfrowi_Nowe_technologie_Relacje_Dobrostan
Data Set Availability: Not mentioned

Goals

- the aim: to increase the knowledge about the use of new technologies by young people in Poland - "Mobile devices are the most popular: more than half students, wanting to use the Internet, never uses a desktop computer (...)". - "The tablet is not chosen by more than 80% of them. The age of digital initiation is declining: the average initiation age for using your own smartphone is 10.2 years (...)". - "The respondents spend their time spent online mainly on using social networks and communicating with others. In everyday use of the Internet, the surveyed youth are characterized by rather high digital competences (...)". - "Generation always on: every tenth respondent declares that he uses the phone almost all the time (...)" - "Use of social networks: Almost all respondents declare the use of social media (92.4% of students have at least one account in a social channel, 10% of students admit that they have only one social account, 20% admit that they have six. Average declared number of media accounts social networks is at the level of 3.7accounts (...)". - "Negative consequences of media abuse digital: One in four teenagers feels overloaded with information"(...). - FOMO syndrome: The research shows that 14% of all surveyed students experience high intensity of the FOMO syndrome. Women are definitely more often (17%) than men (10.8%)". (Dębski, M., Bigaj, M. (2019). Młodzi Cyfrowi. Nowe technologie. Relacje. Dobrostan. Gdańsk: GWP, p. 38-39). (translated by the coder)

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