A Shared responsibility building children’s online resilience

This research explores how children and young people can be supported to become resilient users of the internet. In this context, resilience is seen as an individual’s ability to accurately adapt to changing and sometimes stressful environments and to feel empowered to act instead of react in the face of both novel and threatening challenges. By applying a psychological research perspective, this research posits that young people’s ability to effectively self-regulate their media use actually increases their resilience when encountering potentially harmful or inappropriate content online. This study of British 14-17 year olds explored the potential outcomes of resilience online as well as what environmental and social factors could be seen to predict it.