EMOTIONAL DETERMINANT OF INTERNET SEXTING AMONG ADOLESCENT IN RIVERS STATE
Abstract
The study investigates the emotional determinant of internet sexting among adolescent in Rivers State. The study adopted descriptive research design. The population of the study was 50,568 adolescence students. Multistage sampling was used for the study which involves stratified random sampling, simple random sampling by balloting method and proportionate random sampling. A questionnaire tagged “Emotional Determinant of Internet Sexting among Adolescent Questionnaire” (EDISAQ) was used to collect data for the study. The reliability of the instrument was 0.87. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated for the study. The data collected were analyzed with Mean and standard deviation is used to answer the research question while t-test was used to test the corresponding null hypothesis. From the analysis, it is therefore concluded that guilt does not significantly determine internet sexting among adolescence in secondary adolescent school in Rivers State. Also, the result of the finding shows that loneliness significantly determines internet sexting among adolescence in secondary adolescent school in Rivers State. Based on the findings, it was recommended that adolescence that feels lonely or isolated from loved once should talk to a professional. Psychologists and other mental health professionals can help you express and manage your feelings and find healthy coping tools.
Downloads
References
culture and women’s sexual desire. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(2), 385- 394.
Bond, S. G. (2011). Sexting: A Typology. Crimes against Children Research
Center; Durham, NH, USA: 2011
Campbell, R. C. (2015) Effect of body image and self-image on women’s sexual
behaviours. The International Journal of Eating Disorders, 28, 422-
429. doi: 10.1002/1098-108X(200012)28:4
Chalfen, R. (2019). Patterns of attachment: Assessed in the strange situation
and at home. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cooper, C. (2016). Under pressure to sext? Apply-ing the theory of planned behavior to
adolescent sexting. Behaviour & Infor-mation Technology, 33, 86-98.
Cox (2020) Sexuality in Adolescence: The digital generation. New York, Hove UK:
Routledge.
Dir, Z. D., Cyders, H. & Coskunpinar, R. (2013) Sexual frequency and stability
of marital and cohabitating unions. Journal of Marriage and Family,
71, 983-1000. doi: 10.1111/j.1741- 3737.2009.00648.
Ene, N. E. (2017). “Sexting” shockingly common among teens. Retrieved from
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201 162-4723161.html 22.
Ekene, F. (2016). Adolescent sexuality. Hand-book of adolescent psychology, 1, 479-523.
Englander, D. (2012). Brief report: The association between adolescents’ characteristics and
engagement in sexting. Journal of Adolescence, 37, 1387-1391.
Grant, R. F. (2016). Interaction process analysis. Cambridge. MA: Addison-
Wesley.
Henderson, K. (2011). An exploration of adolscents’ sexual contact and conduct risks
through mobile phone use. Communications, 37, 55-77.
Horst, N., Herr-Stephenson, T., & Robinson, K. (2010) Truth and consequences: Using the
bogus pipeline to examine sex differences in self-reported sexuality. The Journal of Sex Research, 40, 27- 35.
Ickes, B. & Layden, N. (2016) Loneliness and depression in middle and late childhood. The relationship to attachment and parental style. The Journal of Genetic Psychology,
167 (2), 189-210.
Jonsson, H. (2015). Sexting, mobile porn use, and peer group dynamics: Boys’ and girls’
self-perceived popularity, need for popularity, and perceived peer pressure. Media
Psychology, 17, 6-33.
Justin, Q. N. 2015). Attachment orientations, sexual functioning, and relationship satisfaction
in a community sample of women. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,
24(1), 21-35.
Kent, G. (2016). Brief report: Teen sexting and psychosocial health. Journal of Adolescence,
37, 33-36.
Klettke (2018) Exchange and power in social life. New York, NY: Wiley.
Krieger, T. (2017) Heterosexual men and women who seek sex through the internet.
International Journal of STD & AIDS, 17, 530–534.
Lareki, E. (2020). Adolescent sexuality: Disentangling the effects of family structure and family
context. Journal of marriage and family, 63, 669-681.
Lee, G. (2015). Sexting: adolescents’ perceptions of the applications used for, motives for,
and consequences of sexting. Journal of Youth Studies, 20, 446-470.
Len-hart, A. (2009) Soliciting sex on the internet: What are the risks for sexually transmitted
diseases and HIV? Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 27, 545–50.
Lenhart, A. (2019). Sexting: Between thrill and fear—How schools can respond. The
Clearing House: A Journal of Educa-tional Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 87, 204-
212.
Lippman, Y. & Campbell, S. (2014). Sexual self-esteem and its relationship to
demographics, sexual history, relationship context, and condom use in
college students. Digital dissertation.
Marker, G. (2011). Prevalence and correlates of sexting behavior in adolescents. American Journal
of Sexual Education, 7, 1-15.
Moral, T. & Suárez, G. (2018). “Sexting” and its relation to sexual activity and sexual risk
behavior in a national survey of adolescents. Journal of Ado-lescent Health, 55,
757-764.
Rio, I. S. (2017). Women’s experiences of heterosexual intercourse – Scale
construction, factor structure, and relations to orgasmic disorder.
Journal of Sex Research, 38, 191-204.
Robinson, A. (2010) Sexting uncensored: An exploratory study on the behaviours,
experiences, and perceptions of sexting among college students. Digital Thesis.
Simpson, S. N. (2013). Predictors of relationship satisfaction in online romantic
relationships. Communication Studies, 57(2), 153-172.
Rain, I. (2015). Sexual economics: Sex as female resource for social exchange in
heterosexual interactions. Personality and Social Psychology Review,
8(4), 339-363.
Ringrose, G. J., Gill, N., Livingstone, U. I. & Harvey, L. (2012). Computer-
mediated communication and interpersonal attraction: An experimental
test of two explanatory hypotheses. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10,
831–835.
Ringrose, A. 2012). Sociocultural correlates of permissive sexual attitudes: A test of Reiss's
hypotheses about Sweden and the United States. Journal of Sex Research, 37, 44-
52.
Ronko, G. I. (2020). Images across Europe: The sending and receiving of sexual images and
associations with interpersonal violence in young people’s relationships. Children
and Youth Services Review, 59, 149-160.
Van Doorn, D. (2011). Self-disclosure. In D. Wegner, & R. Vallacher (Eds.), The self in
social psychology (pp. 183-204). London: Oxford University Press.
Van Ouytsel, A. R. (2015) College and context: Influences on interpersonal sexual scripts.
Sexuality and Culture, 18(1), 149-165.
Walker, O., Sanci, Y. & Temple-Smith, E. (2013) Internet preven-tion messages: Targeting
the right online behaviors. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 161,
138-145.
Walrave, D. F., Heiman, O. & Hallam, U. N. (2013). Trends in sexual behaviours and
infections among young people in the United States. Sexually Transmitted
Infections, 80, ii74-ii79.
Wolak, V. & Finkelhor, L. (2019). Whether or not to engage in sexting: Explaining
adolescent sexting behaviour by applying the prototype willingness model.
Telematics and Infor-matics, 32, 796-808.
Won 2017). Sexting, substance use, and sexual risk behavior in young adults.
Journal of Adolescent Health, 52(3), 307-313.
Young, Y. U. (2013). Condom use and psychological sensation seeking
by college students. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 17(4), 355-365.
Copyright (c) 2023 IJRDO- Journal of Educational Research
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Author(s) and co-author(s) jointly and severally represent and warrant that the Article is original with the author(s) and does not infringe any copyright or violate any other right of any third parties, and that the Article has not been published elsewhere. Author(s) agree to the terms that the IJRDO Journal will have the full right to remove the published article on any misconduct found in the published article.
