2021 Volume 30 Issue 1 Pages 33-35
There is an increase in cases of children becoming victims of crime by strangers they meet online. We investigated the factors associated with children’s contact with strangers online. In this study, 639 children participated, and out of those who had devices with Internet access, 28.9% communicated with and 2.0% had actually met online strangers. Children who had communicated or met with the strangers perceived that they had less social support from parents and used many social networking sites. This suggests that their contact with strangers online is related to the feeling of being unable to rely on familiar others and lower resistance to contacting online strangers.
