Does social support from parents, professionals or peers extend to digital risks and experiences (IN PREP)

Intro: Social support has Methods: This study outlines the testing and adaptation of support items from the Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale (CASSS). It specifies how general (offline) and digital (online) versions of support items will be evaluated for three key sources—parents, classmates, and adults at school—through descriptive analyses, correlations, and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: Correlation analyses revealed, that experiences of social support differed between digital themes and the general CASSS-scales on the subscales XXX, XZZZ. Specifically... Testing and cognitive interviews suggested that students down to the age of XX, including students with Danish as their second language, were able to... The findings suggest that the social support school aged children receive is unevenly distributed between broad everyday and online setttings. Caregivers and educators should develop ways of extending both instruction and caring to online domains, and to avoid strategies that may pose barriers to care in cases of online experiences and risks.