Naslov
Sexting, cyber-violence and sexually risky behaviour among college students

Autori
Kričkić, Dea ; Šincek, Daniela ; Babić Čikeš, Ana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
9th International Conference of the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Zagreb, 17-19 May 2017, Zagreb, ERFCON 2017 Book of Abstracts / Hržica, Gordana ; Jeđud Borić, Ivana - Zagreb : Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2017, 169-169

Skup
9th International Conference of the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Zagreb ERFCON 2017

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 17.05.2017. - 19.05.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
cyber-violence, sexting, sexually risky behavior

Sažetak
Sexting and cyber violence are often seen as a forms of a risky behaviour performed via Internet by the adolescents, and risky sexually acts corresponds to it in real life. The goal of this research was to explore the relations of sexting, committing and experiencing cyber violence and risky sexually behaviour among college students. Total of 202 college students fulfilled adjusted version of Sex and tech survey questionnaire (STSQ), Committing and experiencing cyber violence scale, and subscale Risky sexually explicit behaviour from Youth self-reported delinquency and risk behaviours questionnaire (SRDP-2007). It has been found that a total of 60.89% of participants had sent a sexually explicit text message and/or video content at least once, 60.33% had received such content while 13.12% had forwarded or shown the received content to other people, 3.5% of the participants had experienced and 2.01% had committed cyber violence. The majority of participants had sent explicit content to their boyfriend/girlfriend, and most of the participants had perceived sexting as a form of joke, a gift to their partners or as an answer to receiving sexually explicit content while the minority of participants had stated negative motives for practicing sexting such as peer or partner pressure. Almost all of the participants are aware of the danger sexting bears but still most of them indulge into sexting, stating its' positive outcomes, such as excitement that follows it. Sexting and committing/experiencing cyber violence, and sexually risky behaviour correlate positively and moderately. Additionally, positive and moderate correlations are found among committing and experiencing cyber violence. Also, positive but weak correlations are found among practicing/experiencing cyber violence and sexually risky behaviour in real life. Predicting sexting by experiencing and committing and experiencing cyber violence and sexually risky behaviour had shown that only sexually risky behaviour is significant predictor, probably serving as a mediator for the relationship of committing cyber violence and sexting, and explaining solely 8.2% of sexting variance, while the whole model explained almost 20% of sexting variance. Results indicate that different forms of risky behaviour are correlated, and that sexting is perceived as not only as a risky behaviour, but as a behaviour that can be used to facilitate committed relationship in young adulthood.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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