Child and Adolescent Internet Use and Health
Online Interpersonal Victimization: Predictors of victimization over time
Korchmaros, J., Mitchell, K., & Ybarra, M. (2011, October). Online Interpersonal Victimization: Predictors of victimization over time. Poster presented at the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Conference, Tucson, AZ.
Summary:
This poster presentation analyzes data from three waves of data of the Growing up with Media study collected in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Specific objectives [...]
Internet experiences and exposures of children and adolescents: implications for mental health
Ybarra, Michele. (2008, April). Internet experiences and exposures of children and adolescents: implications for mental health. Presented at the Western Psychological Association Conference, Irvine, CA.
Summary:
This presentation reviews the fundamentals of online communication (e.g., what is Instant Messaging?); examines how young people use and experience the Internet in positive ways as well as how the Internet [...]
Children with reported histories of sexual abuse: Utilizing multiple perspectives to understand clinical and psychosocial profiles
Ybarra, Michele, Walrath, Christine, Holden, E. Wayne, Liao, Qinghong, Santiago, Rolando, & Leaf, Philip. (2002, March) Children with reported histories of sexual abuse: Utilizing multiple perspectives to understand clinical and psychosocial profiles. Presented at the 15th Annual Research Conference, University of South Florida Research Conference for Children’s Mental Health, Tampa, FL.
Summary:
The critical findings from this [...]
Clinical and psychosocial characteristics of youth with abuse histories served in community mental health programs
Ybarra, Michele, Walrath, Christine, Sheehan, Angela, Holden, Wayne, & Burns, Barbara. (2004, December). Clinical and Psychosocial Characteristics of Youth with Abuse Histories Served in Community Mental Health Programs. Presented at the San Francisco General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Services, Grand Rounds, San Francisco, CA.
Summary:
This study examines the demographic, psychosocial, clinical and service
history [...]
Online social networking and safety: Data to inform policy
Ybarra, Michele (2008, September). Online social networking and safety: Data to inform policy. Presented at the Safer Internet Forum, Luxembourg.
Summary:
This presentation analyzes data from the Growing up with Media longitudinal study to provide characteristics of social networking site users, rates of bullying and sexual solicitation on social networking sites, and compare online and offline social solicitation/ [...]
Children’s use of online technologies
Ybarra, Michele. (2008, September) Children’s use of online technologies. Presented at the Safer Internet Forum, Luxembourg.
Summary:
This presentation analyzes data from the Growing up with the Media study and Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS and YISS2) to discuss characteristics of Internet harassment and online unwanted sexual solicitation. Topics discussed include impact, prevalence rates, demographics of harassers/ solicitors, [...]
Frequency and implications of exposure to violent websites on youth behavior
Ybarra, Michele, Leaf, Philip, Diener-West, Marie, & Hamburger, Merle.(2008, July). Frequency and implications of exposure to violent websites on youth behavior. Presented at the International Society for Research on Aggression XVIII World Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.
Summary:
As our understanding of associations between media violence and youth violent and aggressive behavior continues to grow, there continues to be [...]
Youth exposure to pornography and violent web sites
Ybarra, Michele. (2008). Youth exposure to pornography and violent web sites. Presented at the Internet Safety Technical Taskforce 2nd Meeting, Washington, DC.
Summary:
This presentation explores youth exposure to x-rated material, including examination of unwanted and wanted exposure and comparisons of online and offline exposure. Also explored is exposure to violence online including hate sites, death sites, [...]
Social networking sites, unwanted sexual solicitation, Internet harassment, and cyberbullying
Ybarra, Michele (2008). Social networking sites, unwanted sexual solicitation, Internet harassment, and cyberbullying. Presented at the Internet Safety Techincal Taskforce 1st Meeting, Washington, DC.
Summary:
This presentation explores characteristics of unwanted sexual solicitation and harassment among youth, research topics discussed:
1. Definitions
2. What are the prevalence rates over time?
3. What is the influence SNS have?
4. How do the rates [...]
Online harassment and cyber-bullying within the school context
Ybarra, Michele, Leaf, Philip, Diener-West, Marie, & Hamburger, Merle. (2005, November) Online harassment and cyber-bullying within the school context. Presented at the International Conference on Cyberspace, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Summary:
School professionals are wrestling with how to support youth who are being targeted by Internet harassment, because it‟s occurring off school grounds [...]


