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Hyper-texting and hyper-networking: A new health risk category for teens?
Abstract
Objective: To investigate the prevalence "hyper-texting" (texting ≥120 time/school day) and "hyper-networking" (≥3 hours using online social network sites/school day) among adolescents and their association with health. Background: There is an increasing volume of teens using communication technology. It is unclear whether extremes of this behavior are associated with poorer health. Methods: This cross sectional survey of high school students (n=4257) in an urban Midwestern county included core Youth Risk Behavior Survey items with additional items to address communication technology and other health topics. Analysis includes descriptive statistics, Pearson chi-square, and logistic regression. Results: Hyper-texting (HT) was reported by 19.8% of teens, while 22.5% report no texting. Hyper-networking (HN) is reported by 11.5%, with 22.2% reporting no online social network involvement. HT/HN occurred more often among minority students; among females; in female headed households; and with lower socioeconomic status. Controlling for demographic factors, HT/HN were associated with higher levels of sexual activity, sex partners, perceived stress, suicidal ideation, alcohol use, binge drinking, tobacco use, and marijuana use. HT/HN students were more likely to be obese; demonstrate eating disordered behavior; miss school due to illness; have lower self-rated health; feel unsafe at school; and get less adequate sleep. Teen perception of parent attitudes regarding substance use and sex were more permissive with HT/HN. No texting or social networking was associated with better health outcomes. Minor differences between HT and HN are noted. Conclusion: Excessive use of communications technology among teens is related to higher levels of health risk behaviors and poorer health outcomes.
... Nevertheless, the advancing technologies, such as social media and Internet access, have changed the way people interact and use physical space (Scott et al., 2010;Baruah, 2012). These technologies can, sometimes, result in negative outcomes, while some with long-term consequences (Scott et al., 2010). ...
... Nevertheless, the advancing technologies, such as social media and Internet access, have changed the way people interact and use physical space (Scott et al., 2010;Baruah, 2012). These technologies can, sometimes, result in negative outcomes, while some with long-term consequences (Scott et al., 2010). Meanwhile, people's frequent visits to nearby natural landscapes can contribute to enhancing their psychological, well-being, and physical health (Buchecker and Dengenhardt, 2015). ...
Purpose:
The residents of Baghdad city has been suffering from various issues, including poor social relations, low quality of life, as well as neglect of many public spaces and small parks. Therefore, there is a need to devise effective alternatives to compensate for the loss of large public open spaces so as to enhance the residents’ social interactions and other social activities. Having that said, this study identified the types and characteristics of public open spaces to enhance residents’ social activities in Baghdad city.
Design/methodology/approach:
This study adopted the questionnaire survey method to gather quantitative data from 306 respondents based on the single-stage random procedure. The targeted population of this study refers to the residents of the Karkh district, the western part of Baghdad.
Findings:
The study outcomes highlight the need to provide pocket parks with adequate characteristics to promote the residents’ social interactions in Baghdad city.
Practical implications:
This study contributes by emphasizing the significance of establishing pocket parks for social interaction in Baghdad City.
Originality/value:
The study shows a number of solutions related to pocket parks by studying the critical actionable attributes that can be embedded into new development, land-use policies, or to upgrade existing parks. The study may serve as a useful reference for urban and landscape planners, architects, social psychologists, the Municipal of Baghdad, and other interested researchers in this field.
... These ideas are further supported by previous findings that have demonstrated associations between more frequent text messaging and socially dependent behaviors, such as increased sexual activity among adolescents. 17 How sociability interacts with other factors, such as academic performance, in its association with sexual activity or with the perceived risks of sex has not yet been well described. ...
... Findings from a previous study which demonstrated significant associations of hypertexting with several adolescent risk behaviors also support the use of text messaging frequency as an additional screening tool. 17 Considering the interaction between sociability and academic performance as part of the screening process may provide another means of identifying teens at risk for unhealthy behaviors. ...
Text messaging is an increasingly common mode of communication, especially among adolescents, and frequency of texting may be a measure of one's sociability. This study examined how text messaging ("texting") frequency and academic performance are associated with adolescent sexual behaviors.
A cross-sectional survey was administered to students at a public charter high school in Los Angeles County, CA. Two hundred fifty-six high school students aged 14-20 years participated. Outcome measures were history of vaginal sex, condom use, and worries about pregnancy. The main predictors were text messaging frequency and self-reported academic performance.
In general, students with lower grades were more likely to have had vaginal sex. Greater texting frequency, however, was associated with vaginal sex only among students with higher grades. In addition, despite similar rates of condom use, sexually active students who both had good grades and texted frequently were more likely than others to have thought they or their partner might be pregnant.
The association between texting and sexual behaviors may vary based on adolescent's academic performance. Adolescent sexual health interventions may benefit from using a combination of sociability measures (such as texting frequency) and academic performance as risk predictors.
... He also mentioned that social communication via networking sites has led to critical changes in social, cultural, economic, and political communities in various ways. On the surface, it appears that social networking brings people together across the Internet, but in a larger sense, it leads to negative outcomes, some with long-term consequences such as social isolation, and restricts real social cohesion (Scott et al., 2010). They highlighted that hyper-networking is associated with social, mental, psychological, emotional, and physical problems including depression, substance abuse, poor sleep patterns, suicide, poor social interaction, and poor academic performance. ...
Since the war in 2003, Baghdad has suffered from different aspects of political, administration, economic ethnic, sectarian, etc. that led to the loss of lives, social capital, destruction of Iraqi infrastructure and important buildings, increased crisis aggravation between different ethnics, as well as the disappearance and destruction of many Baghdad’s open spaces, parks, and recreational places. This paper addresses the issue of social interaction in Baghdad city, resulting from the lack of open spaces, parks, and recreational activities. The objective of this paper is to determine the key factors affecting social interaction of Baghdad residents in the parks of the city. This study employed Creswell recommendations (Creswell, 2014) to design the research methodology in general. A quantitative method was adapted to collect and analyse the data of this study by using a survey, i.e. questionnaires, to assess 270 respondents’ opinion about the issue of the study. Respondents were selected randomly in a single-stage procedure by using a simplified formula (Yamane, 1973). Closed-ended questions were used to collect the data of the study from the Karkh district in Baghdad city. Findings of this study confirmed that the factors and criteria of the parks are essential means to achieve sound social interaction in Baghdad, in which, the most influencing factors towards Karkhs' parks users are crowding of visitors and noise, followed by availability of high quality diverse activities. The results of this study are a useful reference for urban and landscape planners, architects, social psychologists, the Municipality of Baghdad, and researchers in this field.
... (Figura 1)-Para Barbosa, Marciales y Castañeda (2015), las competencias informacionales, como conjunto de creencias, motivaciones y habilidades construidas en la historia de vida de los sujetos, ha de ser comprendida y desarrollada en contextos situados de aprendizaje desde aproximaciones comprehensivas y complejizadoras que den cuenta de su relación con factores familiares, escolares, sociales, culturales y económicos. Frank (2010) encontró que el 19,8% de los estudiantes de secundaria enviaba más de 120 SMS al día y 11,5% dedicaba más de 3 horas diarias a las redes sociales online. Los adolescentes hiperconectados presentaban, en comparación con quienes hacían un uso no tan intensivo de internet y móvil, un riesgo de hasta 84% mayor de consumir drogas ilegales, 94% mayor de participar en peleas y 69% mayor de beber alcohol en exceso. ...
Este artículo presenta un análisis sobre el uso de internet y la televisión educativa en jóvenes y niños en edades comprendidas entre 7 y 17 años de edad. A partir de análisis documental desde un enfoque cualitativo tipo documental y una entrevista, se identifican variables asociadas al uso de internet y programas educativos. Conclusión: Factores asociados al uso de internet y la televisión educativa son factores personales, factores de apoyo familiar e institucional (maestro); factores actitudinales, factores sociales e impacto: positivo asociado a relaciones, aprendizaje, y negativos asociado a salud, adicciones, rendimiento académico negativo.
... There has been an increase of teenagers having cell phones, from 56% in 2004 to 85% in 2009 (Frank, Santurri, & Knight, 2010). Teenagers send an average of 2,022 texts per month (Cocotas, 2013). ...
... In this virtual world, teens are actually engaging more but these interactions are mediated through technology. Warnings have emerged claiming that 'over-use' of digital media is somehow associated with higher rates of suicide, substance abuse, depression, hyper-sexuality and anti-social behaviors (Leena, 2008;Yen et al., 2009;Frank, 2010;Yuan-Sheng, et al., 2010). ...
... Texting refers to short, typed messages sent via mobile phones. Frank, Santurri, and Knight (2010) created a media stir by linking high rates of texting with binge drinking, illegal drug use, aggression, and risky sexual behavior. However, the near-complete immersion of youth in computer technologies and their daily use of texting render such reports of questionable use given that so many youth manage to evade such extreme health and social outcomes. ...
New digital technologies are highly responsive to many of the developmental needs of adolescents, including their need for intimate connection and social identity. This chapter explores adolescents' use of web-based sexual information, texting and "sexting," online dating sites, role-playing games, and sexually explicit media, and presents new data comparing the interpersonal and intrapersonal health outcomes among youth who engage in online sexual activities to those who do not. Despite the media-stoked concerns surrounding adolescents' participation in online sexual activities, the ubiquity of online activities and close overlap between online and offline activities indicate that this type of behavior should not be pathologized or used as a metric of problem behavior. The chapter concludes with implications for parents, educators, researchers, counselors, and health care providers, a call to challenge our deep discomfort around adolescent sexuality and to harness these technologies in ways that help promote growth and positive development. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
... Texting has been found to relate to depression for undergraduate men and to prolonged stress for undergraduate women (Thomee, Eklof, Gustafsson, Nilsson, & Hagberg, 2005). High school students involved both in high levels of texting (>120 messages per day) and social networking (> 3 hours per day) were at twice the risk for perceived stress, cybervictimization, suicidal ideation, missing school, and sleeping in class as compared to those with lower levels of involvement in text messaging and social networking (Frank, Dahler, Santurri, & Knight, 2010). ...
In this naturalistic study of adolescents' text messaging, participants (N = 172, 81 girls, age 14) were given BlackBerry devices configured to save their text messages to a secure archive for coding. Two 2-day transcripts collected 4 months apart within the same academic year were microcoded for content. Results showed that most text message utterances were positive or neutral and that adolescents sent text messages primarily to peers and to romantic partners. Only a few sex differences emerged. Frequency of text messages containing negative talk positively predicted overall internalizing symptoms and anxious depression. Text messaging about sex was positively associated with overall internalizing and somatic complaints for girls, but not for boys.
... Meanwhile, as the personal computer has shrunk to the size of a hand-held device, questions are emerging about the psychological effects of the constant connection users have to their communication devices. Internet addiction has become accepted as a psychological and medical disorder, and it includes an addiction to reading, writing, and sending of e-mail messages, as well as cell phone texting (Block, 2008;Frank, 2010;Small and Vorgan, 2008). ...
While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the technological, social, behavioural, and neuroscientific impacts that the Internet is having on the practice of reading. A particular focus is given to the reading behaviour of emerging university students, especially within Canada and the United States. A brief overview is provided of the recent transformation of academic libraries into providers of online digital text in addition to printed books and other materials, before looking at research on college students' preferences for print and digital text, and the cognitive neuroscience of reading on screen.
... It acknowledges the potential for good or ill from the technology. "Risky" online communication behaviors, such as "hyper-texting" and "hyper-networking" [10] and repeated visits to chat rooms to talk with strangers about sex [11], cluster with other online and offline risk factors that could lead to unwanted sexual solicitation. Health providers may wish to consider this as part of their preventive service dialog with teens. ...
The abundance of opinions about Millennials has made it very difficult to separate reality from conjecture, especially with regard to the suppositions made about their propensity towards technology. Labeled as digital natives, Millennials are thought to posses learning traits never before seen as a result of growing up in the digital information age. In this chapter, we present the findings of a study in which postsecondary students (N = 580) were surveyed to quantitatively investigate the differences between digital natives and digital immigrants. Findings revealed that of the ten traits investigated, only two showed significant difference, and of these two traits, only one favored the digital native notion, shedding doubt on the strong digital propensity claims made about today’s Millennials. Although differences were found, we cannot say with any certainty that there is an unambiguous delineation that merits the digital native and digital immigrant labels. The findings raise a variety of implications for institutions training pre-service teachers; educators interested in using digital media, devices, and social networks in their classroom; curriculum developers designing instructional material; educational leaders developing information and communication technology policy for school; and researchers investigating digital propensity with today’s youth.
The abundance of opinions about Millennials has made it very difficult to separate reality from conjecture, especially with regard to the suppositions made about their propensity towards technology. Labeled as digital natives, Millennials are thought to posses learning traits never before seen as a result of growing up in the digital information age. In this chapter, we present the findings of a study in which postsecondary students (N = 580) were surveyed to quantitatively investigate the differences between digital natives and digital immigrants. Findings revealed that of the ten traits investigated, only two showed significant difference, and of these two traits, only one favored the digital native notion, shedding doubt on the strong digital propensity claims made about today’s Millennials. Although differences were found, we cannot say with any certainty that there is an unambiguous delineation that merits the digital native and digital immigrant labels. The findings raise a variety of implications for institutions training pre-service teachers; educators interested in using digital media, devices, and social networks in their classroom; curriculum developers designing instructional material; educational leaders developing information and communication technology policy for school; and researchers investigating digital propensity with today’s youth.
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