ArticleSexual medicine2021
"What Are You Looking For?" Investigating the Association Between Dating App Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors.
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- Problematic online dating app use and its association with mental and sexual health outcomes in a sample of Men-having-Sex-with-Men.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Risk Determinants of Sexual Behaviors: Dating Apps, History of Sexually Transmitted Infections, Substance Use, and Pornography Consumption in Health Science Students.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2025Article
- Google Trends and Syphilis.The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology · 2024Article
- Exploring relationships between dating app use and sexual activity among young adult college students.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Article
- Disembedding and re-embedding: the online interaction mechanisms of divorced youth in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Adolescent Use of Dating Applications and the Associations with Online Victimization and Psychological Distress.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Dating App Use and Sexual Risk: Understanding the Associations between Casual Sex Motivation, Number of Sexual Partners, and STI Diagnoses.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionLiterature on the association between dating app use and sexual risk behaviors is still scant and inconclusive.
aimTo investigate the association between dating app use and sexual risk behaviors, considering the role of motives for using them.
methods1,278 Italian respondents completed an online questionnaire assessing demographics, motives and patterns of dating app use, sexual behaviors and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) diagnoses. One-way ANOVA and Chi-squared analyses were used to investigate differences among the three subsamples (active vs former vs non-users). Multiple linear and logistic regression analyses were run to investigate the role of demographics, motives and patterns of dating app use on sexual risk taking and sexual health.
main outcome measuresNumber of protected and unprotected full sexual partners in the last year; frequency of hook-ups in the last year; STIs lifetime.
resultsActive users, even more than former app users, were more likely to report risky behaviors and STI diagnoses than non-users (χ
conclusionInstalling the apps to search for sexual partners, using them at length since first installation and accessing them frequently are significant factors in influencing the association between dating app use and sexual risk behaviors. Flesia L, Fietta V, Foresta C, Monaro M. "What Are You Looking For?" Investigating the Association Between Dating App Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors. Sex Med 2021;9:100405.
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