Are youth doing risky things online?

Ybarra M. Are youth doing risky things online? Presented at the San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment; 23-27 Jan 2006; San Diego, CA. Data from the Youth Internet Safety Surveys collected in 1999/2000 (YISS) and 2005 (YISS-2) are discussed. … [Read more...]

Youth, Sex & the Internet: What practitioners need to know

Wolak J, Mitchell K, Finkelhor D, Ybarra M. Youth, Sex & the Internet: What practitioners need to know. Oral presentation at the 20th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment; 23-27 Jan 2006; San Diego, CA. Data from the Youth Internet Safety Surveys collected between 1999 and 2000 (YISS1) and in 2005 (YISS2) are discussed. … [Read more...]

Reasons, assessments, and actions taken: A national study of consumer use of Internet health information

Ybarra M, Suman M. Reasons, assessments, and actions taken: A national study of consumer use of Internet health information. Oral presentation at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference; 14 Dec 2005; Philadelphia, PA. Data from the Surveying the Digital Future Year 4 study are discussed. … [Read more...]

Internet use and health among children and adolescents in the United States

Ybarra M. Internet use and health among children and adolescents in the United States. Oral presentation at the Mbarara University, Department of Pediatrics, Grand Rounds; 2005; Mbarara, Uganda.  … [Read more...]

The Internet, pornography, and youth

Ybarra M, Mitchell K. The Internet, pornography, and youth. Oral presentation at the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Conference; 9 Oct 2005; Washington, DC. Data from the Youth Internet Safety Surveys collected in 1999/2000 (YISS) and 2005 (YISS-2) are discussed. … [Read more...]

Clinical and psychosocial characteristics of youth with abuse histories served in community mental health programs

Ybarra M. Clinical and psychosocial characteristics of youth with abuse histories served in community mental health programs. Oral presentation at the San Francisco General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Services, Grand Rounds; 7 Dec 2004; San Francisco, CA. Data collected as part of the national evaluation of the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program by communities funded in 1997 and 2000 (45 sites) are discussed. … [Read more...]

Comparisons of Internet usage characteristics by youth self-reported depressive symptomatology

Ybarra M, Mitchell K, Alexander C. Comparisons of Internet usage characteristics by youth self-reported depressive symptomatology. Poster presentation at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition; 10 Oct 2004; San Francisco, CA. Data from the Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS1) collected between 1999 and 2000 are discussed. … [Read more...]

Associations between online sexual solicitation and depressive symptomatology

Ybarra M, Leaf P. Associations between online sexual solicitation and depressive symptomatology. Oral presentation at the 131st Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association; 15-19 Nov 2003; San Francisco, CA. Data from the Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS1) collected between 1999 and 2000 are discussed. … [Read more...]

Sexual solicitation and harassment on the Internet and the mental health of young people

Ybarra M. Sexual solicitation and harassment on the Internet and the mental health of young people. Oral presentation at the University of Otago, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine Seminar; 13 Sept 2003; New Zealand. Data from the Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS1) collected between 1999 and 2000 are discussed. … [Read more...]

Linkages between depressive symptomatology and Internet harassment among youth

Ybarra M. Linkages between depressive symptomatology and Internet harassment among youth. Oral presentation at the Paediatric Society of New Zealand; 29 Aug 2003; New Zealand. Data from the Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS1) collected between 1999 and 2000 are discussed.  … [Read more...]