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The proposed research topic is whether parents', teachers', and mental health professionals' digital wisdom and self-efficacy predict participation in cyber deviance dialogue. This topic is important to family psychology because cyber transgression is a new issue affecting responsible adults. While laws have been made, adults vary in cyber knowledge and responsibility for teaching children cyber ethics is unclear. The research problem is that the literature does not examine how families, schools, and communities can collaborate on cyber safety education or adults' self-efficacy in teaching children these topics, despite technology changing communication and some cyber issues originating at home.
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- 1. QUANTITATIVE Dissertation Research Plan 7 Section 1. Topic Endorsement 1.1 Research Topic (2 paragraphs) FIRST PARAGRAPH: Describe the specific topic to be studied. SECOND PARAGRAPH: describe the significance of this topic to your program/field (e.g., Psychology, Counseling, Business, Technology, Public Service Leadership, Education, etc.) AND your specialization within your program. The Research Topic should be correctly formed: The Research Topic should be appropriate for the specialization. The Research Topic should use appropriate language for key concepts/phenomena. Relationships between/among the concepts should be clearly specified (e.g., correlation). The target population should be named The concepts should be appropriately focused. Use current (within 5-7 years), scholarly, PRIMARY resources to support statements. Use APA style in citing all resources. 1.1 Research Topic The proposed research topic to be investigated is whether parents, teachers and mental health professional’s digital wisdom and self- efficacy are predictors for participation in cyber deviance dialogue. The relationship that will be explored will be to determine if the independent variables are predictors for the independent or outcome variable. The dependent variable will be initiation in cyber ethics discourse. The independent variable will be self-efficacy or digital wisdom. This dissertation topic is crucial to a family psychology concentration within the field of psychology. Cyber transgression is truly is a new alarming worldwide pandemic of the 21st century (Lei, 2009) that is exceedingly affecting the parents, educators, and professionals that are responsible for younger generations (Tokunga, 2010). While positive legal steps are being made as a result of increased adult awareness of cyber victimization and other cyber issues, these laws do not address the issue of who is ultimately responsible for educating students about cyber safety and proper cyber ethics. Researchers have noted that many adults desire to protect children from cyber dangers, but most of those adults are not fully knowledgeable about cyber safety (Mason, 2008; Nguyen, 2011). Parents have reported not knowing how to discuss digital literacy, cybersafety, and cyber ethics with their children, and have consequently left the educating up to teachers who may or may not be equipped to teach cyber safety themselves (Duque, 2011b; Villano, 2008). Conversely, school faculty often believe that this type of education should be left up to parents since cyber victimization is often generated outside of school (Nguyen, Mark, & Liebengood, 2011; Willard, 2006). And, when cyber transgressions occur, the mental health community is expected to intervene (Barnes, 2004). Adults have the responsibility to be consistent models of appropriate behavior, both on and offline (Baum, 2005). However, many parents, educators, and mental health professionals vary in their knowledge and understanding of technology, and of how to use it safely and responsibly. There are no current empirical studies which have examined how families, schools, and communities can collaborate around cyber safety and digital citizenship education, or adult perceived self-efficacy in teaching children about these topics. A positive triangulation between parents, school, and mental health community is a necessary step in cyber ethics education.
- 2. QUANTITATIVE Dissertation Research Plan 8 1.2 Research Problem (1 Paragraph) Write a brief statement that fully describes the problem being addressed. In simplified terms, the research problem should take this form: “The research literature on _________ indicates that we know ________, we know __________, but we do not know ______________.” The Research Problem should be correctly stated: Existing literature and key findings should be summarized Gaps or problems in the existing literature should be clearly formulated The Research Problem should be explicitly stated, not implied. • Use current (within 5-7 years), scholarly, PRIMARY resources to support statements. • Use APA style in citing all resources. 1.2 Research Problem The creation of the cyber world and the digital devices used to access cyberspace has brought considerable benefit for both society and individuals. These technological advances have changed how individuals communicate and socialize with each other. Despite the advantages of digital technology, there are also opportunities for cyber transgression and victimization. With the majority of cyber transgression origination being developed and implemented within the home environment (Mesch, 2009), the pivotal point of interception and change for cyber deviation is the home and family. There remains a lack of adult consensus about who teaches netiquette and cyber ethics (Wolfsberg, 2006). This lack of collaboration between family, school, and the professional community continues to allow the phenomena of cyber deviance to escalate (Mark, 2009). There are family, school, and mental health implications in determining how best to implement collaborative solutions to positively integrate cyber behaviors into the family. While it is known that adult authority figures, impact the livelihood of a child (Slonje & Smith, 2008), there has not been any research to determine how adults can best begin to implement cyber deviation prevention and intervention strategies.