Being Under Pressure to Sext: Adolescents' Experiences, Reactions, and Counter‐Strategies

Lunde, Carolina; Joleby, Malin

doi:10.1111/jora.12797

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“…Researchers examined several harmful consequences of the imposed or forced sexualization of women, but still little is known about voluntary self-sexualization and its potential effects on women who engage in the practice. The continued exploration of self-sexualization is a timely response to the growing concern about young women's engagement in self-sexualization (e.g., sexting and posting sexualized sel es online) and victimization (Crofts et al, 2015;Lunde & Joleby, 2022). Accordingly, this study contributes to the extension of the literature on self-sexualization by assessing the direct association between self-sexualization and sexual harassment, which may lead to body shame.…”

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Self-sexualization in Relation to Sexual Harassment and Body Shame

Choi

Kang

Kim

et al. 2022

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While many researchers examined several harmful consequences of the imposed or forced sexualization of women, still little is known about voluntary self-sexualization and its potential effects on women who engage in the practice. Although the idea that self-sexualization is self-fulfilling remains contentious, women who self-sexualize are naturally expected to receive sexualized attention, including unwanted attention. This study starts with the question of whether self-sexualizing women, including those who use self-sexualization as a source of power, experience sexual objectification, measured by nonphysical sexual harassment, and its negative consequence, measured by body shame. Furthermore, we investigate how age moderates the relationship. An online questionnaire was created and a total of 308 women completed the questionnaire. Structural equation modeling was conducted to test the hypothesized causal relationships from self-sexualization (self-empowering sexualization and no-power-intent self-sexualization) to nonphysical sexual harassment, which can lead to body shame. The results showed that the effects of self-sexualization are dependent on the intent for self-sexualization as well as the self-sexualizer’s age. While self-sexualization without intent to gain power can lead to increased sexual harassment incidents and body shame, mature women’s self-sexualization as a source of power does not lead to increased sexual harassment experiences nor increased body shame. However, unlike the mature women’s self-empowering sexualization, the young women’s self-sexualization, with or without intent to gain power, can lead to more sexual harassment experiences. The findings of this study indicate the need to uncover the various intentions for self-sexualization as well as their different effects.

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Self-sexualization in Relation to Sexual Harassment and Body Shame

Choi

Kang

Kim

et al. 2022

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Self-Sexualization in Relation to Sexual Harassment and Body Shame

Choi

Kang

Kim

et al. 2023

Sexuality & Culture

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While many researchers examined several harmful consequences of the imposed or forced sexualization of women, still little is known about voluntary self-sexualization and its potential effects on women who engage in the practice. Although the idea that self-sexualization is self-ful lling remains contentious, women who self-sexualize are naturally expected to receive sexualized attention, including unwanted attention. This study starts with the question of whether self-sexualizing women, including those who use self-sexualization as a source of power, experience sexual objecti cation, measured by nonphysical sexual harassment, and its negative consequence, measured by body shame. Furthermore, we investigate how age moderates the relationship. An online questionnaire was created and a total of 308 women completed the questionnaire. Structural equation modeling was conducted to test the hypothesized causal relationships from self-sexualization (self-empowering sexualization and no-power-intent selfsexualization) to nonphysical sexual harassment, which can lead to body shame. The results showed that the effects of self-sexualization are dependent on the intent for self-sexualization as well as the selfsexualizer's age. While self-sexualization without intent to gain power can lead to increased sexual harassment incidents and body shame, mature women's self-sexualization as a source of power does not lead to increased sexual harassment experiences nor increased body shame. However, unlike the mature women's self-empowering sexualization, the young women's self-sexualization, with or without intent to gain power, can lead to more sexual harassment experiences. The ndings of this study indicate the need to uncover the various intentions for self-sexualization as well as their different effects.

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“…Multidisciplinary intervention measures are furthermore recommended to encourage responsible use of mobile devices and to strengthen their digital, emotional and psychosocial skills [ 45 ]. Clear and effective standards must be established to guarantee proper use of ICTs in the family environment and in schools [ 46 , 47 ]. This requires agreement or consensus to be reached on usage rules and times by/with teenagers.…”

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Social Overview of Smartphone Use by Teenagers

Lorenzo

Carrera

Martínez-Carrera

2022

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Information and Communication Technologies have led to a new way of life and, in particular, of socialization. The objective of this study is to analyse the image social media disseminate of news taken from digital newspapers, based on the opportunities and drawbacks attributed to smartphone use by teenagers. An essentially qualitative methodology was used, on a sample of 1704 news items published in digital newspapers. The results and conclusions show that smartphone use by teenagers improves development of their digital competence, presents new academic opportunities (through gamification or mobile learning) and provides them with digital tools for school and leisure. The widespread drawbacks reflect the effects of the device on the deterioration of health (dependence, stress, psychosocial problems) and emotions, thereby succinctly affecting academic performance. A noticeable increase of positive news about smartphones was published in the major newspapers in December, while that on its negative effects, in September.

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Being Under Pressure to Sext: Adolescents' Experiences, Reactions, and Counter‐Strategies

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

Self-sexualization in Relation to Sexual Harassment and Body Shame

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Self-Sexualization in Relation to Sexual Harassment and Body Shame

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