ERIC Number: EJ1235021
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Nov
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0165-0254
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Family Functioning Patterns Predict Teenage Girls' Sexting
Bianchi, Dora; Morelli, Mara; Baiocco, Roberto; Cattelino, Elena; Laghi, Fiorenzo; Chirumbolo, Antonio
International Journal of Behavioral Development, v43 n6 p507-514 Nov 2019
Online exchange of sexual content ("sexting") is associated with potentially negative consequences, especially for girls. We investigated possible associations between family functioning and girls' sexting. Italian teenage girls (N = 250; M[subscript age] = 16.36 years; SD[subscript age] = 1.88) completed online surveys that evaluated family functioning (communication, flexibility, cohesion, disengagement, chaos, enmeshment, and rigidity) and five sexting behaviors: (a) engaging in sexting, (b) sexting with a partner, (c) number of people with whom girls share sexts, (d) nonconsensual forwarding of sexts, and (e) sexting for emotion regulation. We found that engaging in sexting, sexting for emotion regulation, and the number of people with whom girls share sexts were predicted by age and low family communication. Sexting with a partner was predicted by age and high flexibility, and nonconsensual forwarding of sexts was positively predicted by enmeshment.
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Asynchronous Communication, Correlation, Online Surveys, Adolescents, Interpersonal Relationship, Self Control, Age Differences, Prediction, Foreign Countries, Risk, High School Students
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Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Identifiers - Location: Italy
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