Active, Passive, and Non-Sexting Adolescents: Testing Deviancy and Normalcy Perspectives Across Risk-Related and Sexual Competence Variables.

Katharina Brand, Sascha Hein, Barbara Krahé, Paulina Tomaszewska, Isabell Schuster

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Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Katharina BrandDepartment of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 35, 14195, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0009-0007-3450-680X

Sascha HeinDepartment of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 35, 14195, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5358-704X

Barbara KrahéDepartment of Psychology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8306-8497

Paulina TomaszewskaDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine - Interdisciplinary Multimodal Pain Therapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1259-1912

Isabell SchusterDepartment of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 35, 14195, Berlin, Germany. isabell.schuster@fu-berlin.de.ORCID 0000-0002-2156-6308

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 506410023

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two contrasting frameworks have guided research on adolescent sexting. The deviancy perspective regards sexting as a risky behavior. The normalcy perspective acknowledges consensual sexting as a form of sexual expression with potential benefits. Drawing on both perspectives, this study compared adolescents who actively engaged in voluntary sexting (i.e., sent a sext of themselves or others) with those who were only passively (i.e., received, asked, or were asked for a sext, but did not send one) or never involved in sexting. The three groups were compared regarding sexuality-related cognitions, sexual behavior, and depressive symptoms, considering risk- and competence-related variables of sexual development. A sample of 216 adolescents (M

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Adolescent BehaviorRisk-TakingSexual BehaviorAdolescentDepressionEroticaFemaleHumansMaleSurveys and QuestionnairesAdolescentsDepressionRisky sexual behaviorSextingSexual competence

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PMID42387218

DOI10.1007/s10508-026-03477-3

PMCPMC13427828

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