Factors Contributing to Adolescents' and Young Adults' Participation in Web-Based Challenges: Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Web-based challenges, phenomena that are familiar to adolescents and young adults who spend large amounts of time on social media, range from minimally harmful behaviors intended to support philanthropic endeavors to significantly harmful behaviors that may culminate in injury or death.

Objective

This study aims to investigate the beliefs that lead adolescents and young adults to participate in these activities by analyzing the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ice bucket challenge, representing nonharmful behaviors associated with web-based challenges, and the cinnamon challenge, representing web-based challenges that lead to harmful behaviors.

Methods

A retrospective quantitative study was conducted with a total of 471 participants aged between 13 and 3

SUBMITTER: Khasawneh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8078707 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature