Family Functioning Patterns Predict Teenage Girls' Sexting

Autor/inn/en	Bianchi, Dora; Morelli, Mara; Baiocco, Roberto; Cattelino, Elena; Laghi, Fiorenzo; Chirumbolo, Antonio
Titel	Family Functioning Patterns Predict Teenage Girls' Sexting
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 43 (2019) 6, S.507-514 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bianchi, Dora) ORCID (Chirumbolo, Antonio)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025419873037
Schlagwörter	Females; Sexuality; Asynchronous Communication; Correlation; Online Surveys; Adolescents; Interpersonal Relationship; Self Control; Age Differences; Prediction; Foreign Countries; Risk; High School Students; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Sexualität; Korrelation; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Selbstbeherrschung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Vorhersage; Ausland; Risiko; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Italien
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01