Now you see me, now you don’t: o problema do cyberstalking
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2016
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Um dos fenómenos crescentes que gera a preocupação da população em geral traduz-se num único conceito: cyberstalking, considerado uma ramificação do tradicional stalking que
emerge com as evoluções tecnológicas e com a Internet. A presente investigação tem três
objectivos primordiais: 1) perceber e analisar a prevalência de comportamentos de stalking
através das redes sociais existentes, 2) perceber como é que a vitimação por cyberstalking
afecta o bem-estar psicológico dos participantes relativamente à prevalência de experiências
de stress pós-traumático, e 3) averiguar se existem diferenças ao nível da prevalência de
comportamentos de cyberstalking e os sintomas de stress associados, entre Portugal e outros
países. Para tal foi analisada uma amostra total de 590 participantes, onde 351 responderam
ao protocolo da versão inglesa e 239 responderam ao protocolo da versão portuguesa,
protocolos esses constituídos por 1) um questionário sociodemográfico, 2) um questionário
acerca dos hábitos de uso de Internet, 3) pela Cyber Obsessional Pursuit de Spitzberg e
Hoobler (2002) traduzida e adaptada em 2010 por Matos e Carvalho, e 4) e pela Impact of
Event Scale – Revised desenvolvida em 1997 por Weiss e Marmar sendo traduzida e adaptada
em 2006 por Matos e Pinto-Gouveia. Concluiu-se que as redes sociais, ao facilitarem o
contacto entre as pessoas, acabam por auxiliar na adopção de diversos comportamentos de
cyberstalking, aumentando a sua frequência e existência de repercussões nas suas vítimas
relativamente a sintomas de stress, sendo a prevalência de comportamentos e sintomas de
stress na população portuguesa inferior às prevalências a nível nternacional.
One of the growing phenomena that generates the concern of the general population translates into a single concept: cyberstalking, considered an offshoot of traditional stalking emerging with the technological developments and the Internet. This research has three main objectives: 1) to understand and analyze the prevalence of stalking behaviors through existing social networks, 2) understand how victimization by cyberstalking affects the psychological wellbeing of participants in relation to the incidence of posttraumatic stress experience, and 3) determine whether there are differences in the prevalence of cyberstalking behaviors and it’s stress symptons associated, between Portugal and other countries. To this was analyzed a total sample of 590 participants, which 351 responded to the protocol of the English version and 239 responded to the protocol of the Portuguese version, which consisted of 1) a sociodemographic questionnaire, 2) a questionnaire about the Internet usage habits, 3) the Cyber Obsessional Pursuit of Spitzberg and Hoobler (2002) translated and adapted in 2010 by Matos and Carvalho, and 4) and the Impact of Event Scale - Revised developed in 1997 by Weiss and Marmar being translated and adapted in 2006 by Matos and Pinto-Gouveia. It was concluded that social networks to facilitate contact between people end up helping the adoption of different behaviors of cyberstalking, increasing their frequency and the existence of an impact on its victims in relation to stress symptoms, and the prevalence of behaviours and stress symptoms in the Portuguese population lower than the prevalence on an international level.
One of the growing phenomena that generates the concern of the general population translates into a single concept: cyberstalking, considered an offshoot of traditional stalking emerging with the technological developments and the Internet. This research has three main objectives: 1) to understand and analyze the prevalence of stalking behaviors through existing social networks, 2) understand how victimization by cyberstalking affects the psychological wellbeing of participants in relation to the incidence of posttraumatic stress experience, and 3) determine whether there are differences in the prevalence of cyberstalking behaviors and it’s stress symptons associated, between Portugal and other countries. To this was analyzed a total sample of 590 participants, which 351 responded to the protocol of the English version and 239 responded to the protocol of the Portuguese version, which consisted of 1) a sociodemographic questionnaire, 2) a questionnaire about the Internet usage habits, 3) the Cyber Obsessional Pursuit of Spitzberg and Hoobler (2002) translated and adapted in 2010 by Matos and Carvalho, and 4) and the Impact of Event Scale - Revised developed in 1997 by Weiss and Marmar being translated and adapted in 2006 by Matos and Pinto-Gouveia. It was concluded that social networks to facilitate contact between people end up helping the adoption of different behaviors of cyberstalking, increasing their frequency and the existence of an impact on its victims in relation to stress symptoms, and the prevalence of behaviours and stress symptoms in the Portuguese population lower than the prevalence on an international level.
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Orientação: João Pedro Oliveira
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MESTRADO EM PSICOLOGIA FORENSE E EXCLUSÃO SOCIAL, PSICOLOGIA, CIBERESPAÇO, PSYCHOLOGY, CYBERSPACE, CRIME DE PERSEGUIÇÃO, STALKING, STALKING, PSICOLOGIA FORENSE, FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY