Development of youth information hygiene skills: the gap be-tween the self-assessment and real state

Rudenko, Yuliia and Drushlyak, Marina and Naboka, Olha and Proshkin, Volodymyr and Semenikhina, Olena (2025) Development of youth information hygiene skills: the gap be-tween the self-assessment and real state E-Learning and Enhancing Soft Skills. pp. 81-104. ISSN 978-3-031-82242-1

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Abstract

All strata of the population become the objects of destructive informational and psychological influence, and, especially, young people, who, on the one hand, are the most active users of technologies and Internet resources, genera-tors of the development and spread of social networks and video channels, and, on the other hand, due to their age-related psychological characteristics and lack of life experience, they are the most vulnerable category of society. The reasons for this conclusion are that young people, on the one hand, are the generation that has been surrounded by IT since birth, and for whom it is natural to live and interact in an information environment, using IT and con-suming information flows in excessive quantities, mostly from social net-works. On the other hand, young people are confident in their own actions in cyberspace and their digital literacy, media competence, and cyber security skills. The stated contradiction led to the study, the purpose of which was to compare the self-assessment of young people and the development of their actual information hygiene skills (the ability to distinguish fake from the truth, to identify real cyber threats, etc.). Sumy, Donetsk region, and Kyiv (Ukraine) educational institutions became the experimental base. According to the results of the study, a gap of 40-60% was found on average. Qualitative analysis of empirical data revealed the reasons for the established gap: lack of awareness of the insufficient level of development of one's own information hygiene skills and self-confident attitude to information flows in cyberspace. Separate consequences of such a gap were revealed: almost defiant behaviour in the cyber environment, which is manifested in ignoring informational dan-gers, irresponsible consumption of information of dubious quality, dissemina-tion and further dissemination of false data, biased assessment of facts, trust-ing attitude to manipulative techniques, etc.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	information hygiene; information hygiene skills; self-assessment; information influence; cyber protection skills; IT; digital technologies; education
Subjects:	Статті у базах даних > Scopus (без квартилю)
Divisions:	Факультет інформаційних технологій та математики > Кафедра математики і фізики
Depositing User:	Володимир Вадимович Прошкін
Date Deposited:	02 Jun 2025 08:55
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2025 08:55
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/51959

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