The impact of the pandemic on young people's risk behaviour: risky challenges
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https://doi.org/10.61007/QdC.2023.3.162Keywords:
social challenge, risk-taking, self-improvement, edgework, sensation seeking, narcissism, self-harmAbstract
The contribution analyzes the risky social challenges highlighted by the international press, implemented during the pandemic period with a pedagogical-communicative approach linked to the sociology of risk. The viral phenomenon of challenges is observed in human behaviours with narcissistic and self-harming traits typical of adolescence. It is related to the hybridization of the overlapping of the communication and social interaction space with its digital virtualization.
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