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ArticleMedia psychology2025

Digital Sexual Communication Among Adolescents: Links with Sociosexual Health Outcomes and Psychosocial Distress.

Anne J Maheux, Laura Widman, Jordyn McCrimmon, Aaron Lankster, Courtney Medina

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Article in Media psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Psychosocial correlates of condom use among Black adolescents in the United States: A meta-analysis.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Anne J MaheuxDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Laura WidmanDepartment of Psychology, North Carolina State University.
Jordyn McCrimmonDepartment of Psychology, North Carolina State University.
Aaron LanksterDepartment of Psychology, North Carolina State University.
Courtney MedinaDepartment of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh.

Funding

Identifying Predictors of Condom UseF31HD114366 · NICHD · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI JORDYN MCCRIMMON · 2023 to 2026
$103k
NICHD NIH HHS F31 HD114366
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Communication with romantic and sexual partners is important for adolescent well-being. Features of digital media, such as limited social cues and asynchronous messaging, transform social interactions, yet the effects of digital affordances on adolescent partner communication remain unclear. In the current study, U.S. adolescents (

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adolescencecommunicationdigital mediamental healthsexual partners

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PMID40978685
PMCPMC12448067

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