The Digital Abuse Study: Incidence of Negative Experiences Online

1. For each of the following items, please say whether this has happened to you, or not.

• Someone looked at your text messages and recent call log in your phone without your permission
  
• Someone wrote something about you on an Internet page that wasn’t true
  
• Someone wrote something about you on an Internet page that was really mean
  
• Someone put embarrassing pictures or videos of you on an Internet page without your permission
  
• Someone spied on you by logging into your email account or Facebook, Twitter, or other Internet account without your permission
  
• Someone used email, IM or cell phone text messages to spread rumors about you that weren’t true
  
• Someone impersonated you by logging into your email account or Facebook, Twitter, or other Internet account without your permission
  
• Someone shared/sent to another person an email or IM you had sent them that you didn’t want shared
  
• Someone used an e-mail message, IM or cell phone text message or post on an Internet page yo threaten to harm you physically
  
• Someone found embarrassing information about you on the Internet and used it to tease you in person
  
• Someone videotaped or photographed you doing something embarrassing without your knowledge and shared it with other people
  
• Someone used email, IM, text messaging or a site like Facebook or Twitter to say they were interested in dating you, and later told you they were only pretending
  
• Someone threatened to send e-mail text messages or post things on sites like Facebook or Twitter telling other people private things about you, true or untrue, if you did do as they demanded
  
• Someone found some embarrassing information about you on the Internet and shared it with other people without your permission
  
• Someone sent you email, IM or cell phone messages encouraging you to hurt yourself
  
• Someone impersonated you by creating a fake Facebook profile for you
  

Response Options:*
Has happened to me
Has not happened to me

* Numeric codes for the Response Options above were not provided in the original report.

Not Applicable

PRIMARY CITATION:

Tompson, T., Benz, J. & Agiesta, J. (2013). The digital abuse study: Experiences of teens and young adults. https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/AP-NORC-Center-and-MTV_Digital-Abuse-Study_FINAL.pdf