Young adult cyber violence : an investigation of the associations with vulnerable experiences, attachment patterns, problematic internet use, limerence, and internalizing symptoms
department or school: Education, Faculty of
department or school: Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Baitz, Rachel
issued: 2023-07-12T21:01:01Z
issued: 2023
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Background: Young adulthood is often characterized as a time of rapid individuation away from family relationships toward more adult romantic partner relationships. In the current technological climate, young adult relationships begin, grow, and develop both in-person and online in a seamless fashion. Unfortunately, problems that have always plagued young adult relationships, such as dating violence, also occur via electronic mediums. Given that technological factors that relate to relationships are still emerging, little is known about how a variety of experiences across the childhood and adolescent trajectory relate to the emergence of cyber dating violence in young adulthood. Objectives: The current research seeks to understand how early childhood traumatic experiences predict cyber dating violence, and whether this relationship is mediated by insecure attachment, and moderated by problematic internet use, internalizing symptoms, limerence, cyberbullying perpetration and victimization, and limerence. Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, 1354 adults aged 18 to 51 were recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to answer a questionnaire about their experiences with cyber dating violence victimization and perpetration, as well as their experiences with cyberbullying and victimization, internalizing symptoms, problematic internet use, attachment styles, and limerence. Results: Results indicated partial mediations for higher scores on measures of insecure attachment (anxious, avoidant) on the relationship between traumatic experiences recalled from early in life and cyber dating violence victimization and perpetration in young adulthood. Moderation results indicated that cyberbullying, cyber victimization, and problematic internet use moderated the influence of traumatic experiences recalled from early life on cyber dating violence experiences in young adulthood. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated several predictors of limerence, such as anxious attachment, in…
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note: YOUNG ADULT CYBER VIOLENCE: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ASSOCIATIONS WITH VULNERABLE EXPERIENCES, ATTACHMENT PATTERNS, PROBLEMATIC INTERNET USE, LIMERENCE, AND INTERNALIZING SYMPTOMS by Rachel Baitz B.A., Kwantlen Polytechnic University, 2011 M.A., University of British Columbia, 2015 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Human Development, Learning, and Culture) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) July 2023 ã Rachel Baitz, 2023 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommended to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Young Adult Cyber Violence: An Investigation of the Associations with Vulnerable Experiences, Attachment Patterns, Problematic Internet Use, Limerence, and Internalizing Symptoms submitted by Rachel Baitz in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, Learning, and Culture Examining Committee: Jennifer Shapka, Professor, Educational, Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, UBC Supervisor Marla Buchanan, Professor, Educational, Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Johanna Sam, Assistant Professor, Educational, Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Daniel Cox, Professor, Educational, Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, UBC University Examiner Sheila Marshall, Professor, School of Social Work, UBC University Examiner iii Abstract Background: Young adulthood is often characterized as a time of rapid individuation away from family relationships toward more adult romantic partner relationships. In the current technological climate, young adult relationships begin, grow, and develop both in-person and online in a seamless fashion. Unfortunately, problems that have always plagued young adult relations…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2023-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0434196
language: eng
degree discipline: Human Development, Learning, and Culture
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Shapka, Jennifer
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85230