Sexting and Mental Health Among Young Australians Attending a Musical Festival: A Cross Sext-ional Study

Valiukas, Sally; Pickering, MacKenzie; Hall, Thomas; Seneviratne, Nilasi; Aitken, Amy; John-Leader, Franklin; Pit, Sabrina

doi:10.1089/cyber.2018.0671

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“…Consistent with prior research [8,16], receiving unsolicited sexts was also linked to psychosocial health. In a qualitative study [34] exploring how people define sexting, it was found that only consensual messages were viewed as sexting, whereas unwanted sexts were viewed as an assault, which helps explain the psychosocial consequences of unsolicited sexts.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Similarly, for anxiety, while a number of studies identified positive associations [5,8,14,15], others reported no significant relationship [11][12][13]. Beyond these two variables, sexting has been linked to higher impulsivity [13], greater psychological distress [4,16], higher levels of stress and lower self-esteem [8], conduct disorder [15], and borderline personality disorder features [17]. Contrarily, a study of Italian adolescents revealed no differences in psychological distress between those who did not sext, moderately sexted, and frequently sexted [18].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, to disentangle the complex relationships between sexting and psychosocial health, research needs to differentiate various forms of sexting. However, to date, the majority of existing studies have focused on one or two types of sexting (e.g., sending a sext [13]; receiving a sext [16]; sending and receiving [15]) or a composite measure of various forms of sexting (e.g., sending, receiving, forwarding of nude photos/videos and sexually suggestive messages [14]; combination of sending and receiving sexts [6]). Further, only a limited number of psychosocial health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety) have been considered.…”

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Multiple Forms of Sexting and Associations with Psychosocial Health in Early Adolescents

Baumler

Temple

2021

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Despite the recent surge of sexting research, the link between sexting and psychosocial health remains inconclusive. To address this gap in the literature, we examined the link between multiple forms of sexting and a range of psychosocial health problems. Data were from a randomized controlled trial of a school-based dating violence prevention program. Participants were 2199 early adolescents (49.8% female) aged 14 years and under (mean age = 13.53, SD = 0.50) enrolled in middle-schools in southeast Texas. Participants self-reported to be 35.4% Hispanic, 7.9% Non-Hispanic White, 26.2% Non-Hispanic Black, 18.6% Asian, and 11.9% other. Multilevel multivariate regressions found that pressured sexting was associated with hostility and aggressive temperament. Receiving unsolicited sexts was associated with depression, impulsivity, hostility, emotion dysregulation, and aggressive temperament. Forwarding sexts without permission was linked to hostility. Asking someone for sexts was linked to impulsivity and aggressive temperament, while being asked to send a sext was associated with depression, anxiety, impulsivity, hostility, emotion dysregulation, and aggressive temperament. Finally, consensual sexting was not significantly associated with poor psychosocial health of any type. Interventions should focus on preventing pressured sexting and teaching early adolescents on how to respond to being pressured to sext.

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Multiple Forms of Sexting and Associations with Psychosocial Health in Early Adolescents

Baumler

Temple

2021

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“…It was found that engagement in sexting is common among users of gay dating applications (Albury & Byron, 2014). Several quantitative studies have found that sexual minority adults are more likely to send sexting images than heterosexual adults (Bauermeister, Yeagley, Meanley, & Pingel, 2014;Gámez-Guadix, Almendros, Borrajo, & Calvete, 2015;Garcia et al, 2016;Valiukas et al, 2019). Among sexual minority men who were users of dating applications, researchers found that those who engaged in sexting were more likely to sleep fewer hours on average than those who did not engage in sexting (Al-Ajlouni, Park, Schrimshaw, Goedel, & Duncan, 2019).…”

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Sexting, pressured sexting and image-based sexual abuse among a weighted-sample of heterosexual and LGB-youth

Ouytsel

Walrave

Marez

et al. 2021

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…In recent literature reviews, Krieger ( 2017 ) noted that only 28.1% of articles explicitly included non-consensual acts in researcher's operational definitions of sexting; Walker and Sleath ( 2017 ) identified only 18 empirical papers that examined the prevalence of non-consensual sharing of TMSIs. More recent research findings suggest that around 50% of adults reported receiving an unsolicited sexual message/image or genital image (Valiukas et al, 2019 ; Marcotte et al, 2020 ) and slightly fewer reported sending one (Oswald et al, 2019 ). In their literature review, Walker and Sleath ( 2017 ) found that between 1.1 and 6.3% of adult participants reported being the victim of non-consensual sharing (having a TMSI that one sent shared by someone else without the sender's consent), and between 1.4 and 16.3% reported sharing a TMSI they received from someone else without the sender's consent.…”

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Unsolicited Pics and Sexual Scripts: Gender and Relationship Context of Compliant and Non-consensual Technology-Mediated Sexual Interactions

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Technology-mediated sexual interaction (TMSI) refers to any partnered interaction that involves sending or receiving self-created, sexually explicit content using communication technology (e. g., sexting, cybersex). Most research on TMSI assumes that experiences are desired and consensual. However, it is likely that some people do not desire all their TMSI experiences but consent to them anyways (compliance), or experience non-consensual TMSIs. People also engage in TMSIs with different types of partners. According to the traditional sexual script (TSS), other-gender attracted women and men's non-consensual TMSI experiences should differ overall and depending on the relationship context of the experience. The goal of this study was to examine the role of sexual scripts in other-gender attracted women and men's non-consensual and compliant TMSI experiences with committed romantic partners (CRPs), known non-partners (KNPs), and strangers (Ss). Women (n = 331) and men (n = 120) completed an online survey with questions about lifetime prevalence of experiencing seven types of compliant and non-consensual TMSIs in each relationship context. Results of mixed ANOVAs revealed significant interactions: overall, more participants reported compliant TMSI with CRPs. More women than men had received a non-consensual TMSI from someone they were not in a committed relationship with, and more men than women reported sending non-consensual TMSIs to a stranger. Tests of unpaired proportions suggested that the prevalence of sending and receiving non-consensual TMSIs was discordant in the KNP and S contexts: both women and men received more non-consensual TMSIs from KNPs and Ss than the other-gender reported sending. Our findings suggest that gendered sexual scripts are evident in some, but not all, aspect of other-gender attracted women and men's compliant and non-consensual TMSI experiences.

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Sexting and Mental Health Among Young Australians Attending a Musical Festival: A Cross Sext-ional Study

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Multiple Forms of Sexting and Associations with Psychosocial Health in Early Adolescents

Multiple Forms of Sexting and Associations with Psychosocial Health in Early Adolescents

Sexting, pressured sexting and image-based sexual abuse among a weighted-sample of heterosexual and LGB-youth

Unsolicited Pics and Sexual Scripts: Gender and Relationship Context of Compliant and Non-consensual Technology-Mediated Sexual Interactions

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