Larisa Karklins

University of South Australia, Education, PhD Student and Tutor

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I am a PhD student at UniSA. I completed my undergraduate degree at Flinders University in Psychology in 2009, continued to study by completing my Honours in 2010, and then finally I completed my Masters in Criminal Justice in 2012.

For my current PhD research, I am investigating the relationship between cyberbullying, help seeking, and coping among young adolescents. The research aims to investigate why young people are not seeking help for cyberbullying (as well as why they are), who they seek help from and why, and what other methods they use to cope with it. I am a PhD student as a part of the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, as a part of the Safe and Well Online Study team.

I have presented at the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference in 2012, the Australian Association for Research in Education Conference in 2013, the Young and Well National Connect Conference in 2014, and the International Association of Youth Mental Health Conference in 2015.
Supervisors: Barbara Spears and Carmel Taddeo
Phone: 83024150

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Conference Presentations by Larisa Karklins

Coping, mental health and cyberbullying: Understanding the coping behaviours of adolescents and their reluctance to seek help.

by Carmel Taddeo and Larisa Karklins

Wellbeing of young people involved in cyberbullying: Insight into coping and help seeking intentions

by Larisa Karklins and Carmel Taddeo

An investigation into the relationship between cyberbullying, coping and help seeking in young adolescents

Understanding Wellbeing Online: Cyberbullying, help-seeking and coping behaviours

The risks of social networking sites to South Australian high school students

Papers by Larisa Karklins

Cyberbullying, help-seeking and mental health in young Australians: implications for public health

by Alex Stretton, Larisa Karklins, Carmel Taddeo, and Barbara Spears

International Journal of Public Health, 2015

To examine the relationship between young Australians&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; cy... more To examine the relationship between young Australians&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; cyberbullying experiences, their help-seeking practices and associated mental well-being and social connectedness, with a view to informing national health and well-being agendas. An online survey was administered to young people aged 12-18 years (n = 2,338), recruited across Australia in year 2 of a larger 4-year study. Youth with no experience of cyberbullying had better well-being profiles and mental health overall. Conversely, cyberbully victims, had poorer well-being and mental health and tended not to engage with online support services, in spite of being more likely to be online after 11 pm. Parents and peers were identified as key sources of help for most young people when dealing with problems. Cyberbullying is a public health issue particularly for vulnerable youth whose mental health and well-being is impacted more than those not involved. As youth are spending increasing time in the 24/7 online environment, there is a need to develop initiatives that engage young people and encourage help-seeking online, whilst concomitantly building capacity of parents and peers to support their well-being.

Spears, B., Taddeo, C., Daly, A., Stretton, A., & Karklins, L. (2015). Cyberbullying, help-seeking and mental health in young Australians: Implications for public health. International Journal of Public Health, 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s00038-014-0642-y

Karklins, L., & Dalton, D. (2012). ‘Social networking sites and the dangers they pose to youth: Some Australian findings', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 24: 1, pp. 25-42.