%0 Journal Article
%T Modelo Emp¨ªrico, Descriptivo y Predictivo Para el Compromiso de Identidad en el Chat en Adolescentes Escolares Chilenos
%A Altuzarra
%A Mar¨ªa Paz
%A Zegers
%A Beatriz
%J Psykhe (Santiago)
%D 2007
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0718-22282007000200007
%X an empirical descriptive and predictive model of multiple regression on the relationships between identity involvement in the chat and mental health, sex, grade and modality of chat in a sample of 385 male and female high school students, from santiago de chile, is presented. the instruments used were: a questionnaire about internet usage, an identity compromise scale in the chat and a youth mental health scale. results indicate that both, mental health and type of chat, predicted compromise of identity in the chat. it was observed a greater compromise among female teenagers from 9th and 10th grade who used open and mixed chat.
%K youth identity
%K mental health
%K chat.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-22282007000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en