Although pro-anorexia online support forums and the narratives that occur within them are
increasingly the focus of research, none, to date, focuses closely on issues of identity within …

This paper reports a study that investigated the effects of gender, Internet anxiety, and Internet
identification on use of the Internet. The study involved 608 undergraduate students (490 …

The aim of the study was to compare first and second generation Digital Natives' attitudes
toward and use of the Internet. The sample of first generation Digital Natives consisted of 558 …

Past research on online relationships has predominantly been concerned with how the quality
of online relationships compares with offline relationships. This research has been more …

In this study, the authors explored how a group of young people aged 16 to 26 years (who
identified themselves as having engaged in deliberate self-harm) made sense of the self by …

In 2002, we found gender differences in the use of the Internet. Since then, however, the
Internet has changed considerably. We therefore conducted a follow-up study in 2012. The …

The practice of conducting research online is in its infancy. Consequently there is debate
concerning the ethical implications of online data collection. We outline three approaches to …

Background On social media, images such as thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration,
are shared to inspire certain body ideals. Previous research has demonstrated that exposure …

Purpose Drawing on gender-role stereotypes and defensive attribution theory, the purpose
of this paper is to investigate the influence of perpetrator-victim sex, observer sex and …

This paper reports a study investigating the relationship between Internet identification, Internet
anxiety and Internet use. The participants were 446 students (319 females and 127 males…