Motivations, Behaviors and Expectancies of Sexting: The Role of Defensive Strategies and Social Media Addiction in a Sample of Adolescents.

Alessandra Ragona, Martina Mesce, Silvia Cimino, Luca Cerniglia

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Adolescent Sexting in Romantic Relationships and Daily Positive and Negative Affect Dynamics: A Dyadic Intensive Longitudinal Study.Computers in human behavior · 2026
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Alessandra RagonaDepartment of Dynamic, Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Rome, Sapienza, 00186 Rome, Italy.

Martina MesceDepartment of Dynamic, Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Rome, Sapienza, 00186 Rome, Italy.

Silvia CiminoDepartment of Dynamic, Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Rome, Sapienza, 00186 Rome, Italy.

Luca CernigliaFaculty of Psychology, International Telematic University Uninettuno, 00186 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6115-288X

Sapienza University of Rome · ITUniNettuno University · IT

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Abstract

Adolescents and young adults engage in sexting behaviors. Research has mainly emphasized the relationship between motivations and sexting behaviors, with little attention paid to sexting expectations and the potential role of coping strategies. This study aims to explore the measure of emotional-behavioral functioning with the Youth/Adult Self Report (based on the subject's age), the use of defensive strategies measured with the Response Evaluation Measure (REM-71), social media addiction with the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) and all dimensions of sexting: motivations, behavior and expectations measured with the Sexting Motivation Questionnaire (SMQ), Sexting Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) and Sexpectancies Questionnaire (SQ), respectively.

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Adolescent BehaviorSocial MediaText MessagingAdolescentFemaleHumansInternet Addiction DisorderMaleMotivationSexual BehaviorSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung Adultdefensive strategyexpectanciessextingsocial media addiction

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PMID36767172

DOI10.3390/ijerph20031805

PMCPMC9913953

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