Table 1.

Prevalence of specific risky online behaviours (n=1364)

Specific online behaviour	Male (n=646) (%)	Female (n=718) (%)	Total (n=1364) (%)	p value
Posting personal information on a public profile	36.1	29.7	32.7	0.012
Sending personal information to a stranger*	45.2	47.5	46.4	0.397
Posting revealing photographs or videos	2.2	0.8	1.5	<0.001
Interaction with stranger*	89.9	86.5	88.1	0.050
Perpetration of harassment	37.2	27	31.8	<0.001
Perpetration of unwanted sexual solicitation	5.3	0.4	2.7	<0.001

p value based on Pearson’s χ² test comparing differences in risky online behaviours between genders.

p value in bold significant at p<0.05.

*‘stranger’ refers to a contact encountered solely through an online SNS without a prior face-to-face meeting.