- PMD: 6
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Intermediate
- Poster Session 6: Promoting Social and Emotional Development
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- learn the associations between adolescents' exclusively online friendships and psychological functioning;
- learn the characteristics of adolescents who engage in exclusively online friendships; and
- learn how adolescents perceive the friendship quality of exclusively online friendships in comparison to offline friendships.
Description
Exclusively online friendships are increasingly common and impactful among adolescents, but they are not well understood. Learn what research reports about the benefits and disadvantages of this mode of friendship in adolescence.
Presenter(s)
Marie J. Enderle, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Kyongboon Kwon, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Abigail K. Benvenuto, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
