Abstract:
This thesis aimed to study the relationship between internet risk behaviors and the potential of internet harm to adolescents in Bangkok. The study focused on the impacts of several factors such as demographic, family, friend, emotion and internet work behavior on the potential of internet harm. Three hundred adolescences who used internet in government computer room, in private or public schools, and internet café in Bangkok were interviewed with questionnaires. The Chi-square tests were used to test to the assumptions of finding the relationship between all factors and potential of internet harm. Frequency, percentage, and mean were used to detect types of internet work behavior that had more risks on the potential of internet harm. The results showed most of the adolescences had low level impacts from the potential of internet harm. The Chi-square tests showed that sex, internet work behavior of friends in group, emotion, internet used experience and internet used frequency had significant impacts on adolescences with the potential of internet harm where as guardian control, income, time and place to use internet did not have significant effects. The variable which had the most impact on potential of internet harm was sex while emotion had the least influence.