Keywords:
technology
online
risk
psychology

  • Abstract

    The use of digital technology that supports daily activities has a positive impact on individual psychological well-being. However, the intensity of online digital technology makes individuals face some online risks, namely, content, contact, and conduct risks, especially in adolescents. Teenagers are considered a population at online risk, so adolescents need to develop the ability to deal with and through online challenges called Digital Resilience (DR). Digital resilience studies continue to grow over time. This causes many researchers to continue to study of digital resilience by compiling, comparing, and testing the preexisting conceptual models. This research focuses on conducting a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) with the PRISMA method in the Scopus, Google Scholar, and Crossref articles from 2020-2024. The data search found 255 articles but only 38 relevant articles were analyzed to answer questions related to the definition of digital resilience in psychology studies, the general methods used and population descriptions in digital resilience research, the theoretical perspectives used in digital resilience studies, and the conceptual model description of digital resilience. The study results indicate that digital resilience is an individual's ability to protect themselves and recover from detrimental actions when using digital media online. Over the past five years, mixed methods, qualitative, and literature reviews have been commonly used in digital resilience research, while quantitative methods are still limited. Likewise, the adolescent population is still limited to be studied in digital resilience research. Thus far, researchers have used an ecological theory perspective to explain digital resilience. In addition, three conceptual models of digital resilience were found, and 2 of them still require empirical testing in further research. The findings of the study provide an opportunity for future researchers to empirically test digital resilience models in the adolescent population.

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