Adolescents' Sexual Media Use and Willingness to Engage in Casual Sex: Differential Relations and Underlying Processes

Oosten, Johanna M. F. van; Peter, Jochen; Vandenbosch, Laura

doi:10.1111/hcre.12098

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“…Other work supports the idea that norms and beliefs about peers’ sexual beliefs may uniquely develop on social media, compared to other types of media. In a prospective longitudinal study of adolescents (van Oosten et al 2017), researchers found that adolescents who were exposed to peers’ sexually provocative self-presentations on social media reported more favorable descriptive norms and prototypes of peers who engage in casual sex. Compared to other forms of media examined in this study (i.e., online pornography, sexually oriented television), exposure to peers’ sexualized social media images may have uniquely created perceptions of casual sex as both normative and desirable.…”

Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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As social media use becomes increasingly widespread among adolescents, research in this area has accumulated rapidly. Researchers have shown a growing interest in the impact of social media on adolescents' peer experiences, including the ways that the social media context shapes a variety of peer relations constructs. This paper represents Part 2 of a two-part theoretical review. In this review, we offer a new model for understanding the transformative role of social media in adolescents' peer experiences, with the goal of stimulating future empirical work that is grounded in theory. The transformation framework suggests that the features of the social media context transform adolescents' peer experiences by changing their frequency or immediacy, amplifying demands, altering their qualitative nature, and/or offering new opportunities for compensatory or novel behaviors. In the current paper, we consider the ways that social media may transform peer relations constructs that often occur at the group level. Our review focuses on three key constructs: peer victimization, peer status, and peer influence. We selectively review and highlight existing evidence for the transformation of these domains through social media. In addition, we discuss methodological considerations and key conceptual principles for future work. The current framework offers a new theoretical perspective through which peer relations researchers may consider adolescent social media use.

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Section: Peer Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Nesi

Choukas‐Bradley

Prinstein

2018

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

190

236

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“…Among Dutch adolescents, it has been previously shown that sexual displays on social network sites are related to adolescents' perceived peer norms regarding sex (Doornwaard, Moreno, et al, 2014), and that such peer norms can in turn influence adolescents' willingness to engage in sexual behavior (van Oosten, Peter, & Vandenbosch, 2017). These studies show the importance of peer norms and values and the profound influence they can have on young people's (sexual) behavior online.…”

Section: The Role Of Peers and Peer Norms In Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 87%

“Sexy Selfies”. The Role of Social Media in Adolescents’ (Self-) Sexualization

Oosten¹

2018

Youth and Media

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Recently, scholars have started to pay attention to how sexualization may occur in social media, where adolescents are said to self-sexualize through posting sexy pictures of themselves (sexy self-presentation). Based on an overview of recent research on adolescents' social media use and online self-presentation, it can be concluded that some aspects of sexualization, such as self-objectification and the increased emphasis on physical and sexual attractiveness, also occur in social media. However, we still lack knowledge on other aspects of online (self-)sexualization, such as the occurrence of sexual objectification-by self and others-and whether sexual content is inappropriately imposed upon adolescents in social media. Moreover, although there is initial evidence that the use of social media decreases self-esteem and sexual satisfaction, we still lack knowledge on whether the same consequences that are said to occur for sexualization in traditional media also occur for self-sexualization in social media. Suggestions for future research on (self-) sexualization in social media are given, which also pertain to the unique aspects of social media (i.e., peer norms and self-perception) compared to traditional media platforms. 1 (This chapter is an English translation of a Dutch journal article: Annemarie van Oosten (2016). "Sexy selfies": Over de rol van sociale media bij (zelf-) seksualisering onder jongeren. Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie, 40(2), 61-67.

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“…C. Brown, Conner, & Vennum, 2017; J. D. Brown & L’Engle, 2009; D’Abreu & Krahe, 2014 van Oosten, Peter, & Vandenbosch, 2017; Ward, Vandenbosch, & Eggermont, 2015; Wright, 2012). However, it remains a possibility that selective exposure dynamics are operable in addition to sexual scripting dynamics.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Pornography and Sexual Behavior: Do Sexual Attitudes Mediate or Confound?

Wright

2018

Communication Research

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Using four separate national probability metasamples of adults in the United States, two measures of pornography consumption, two measures of sexual attitudes, and two measures of sexual behavior, this article pits two macrotheories on pornography and its behavioral effects against each other in competing, falsifiable hypothesis tests. Specifically, the article compares the libertarian theory of pornography’s hypothesis that sexual attitudes are a confound of the pornography consumption—sexual behavior relationship, with the sexual scripting theory of pornography’s hypothesis that sexual attitudes are a mediator of the pornography consumption—sexual behavior relationship. No evidence was found to support the argument that pornography consumption—sexual behavior relationships are spurious and due to preexisting sexual attitudes. Alternatively, analyses uniformly supported the conceptualization of sexual attitudes as a mediating link between pornography consumption and sexual behavior.

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Adolescents' Sexual Media Use and Willingness to Engage in Casual Sex: Differential Relations and Underlying Processes

Cited by 55 publications

References 63 publications

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

Transformation of Adolescent Peer Relations in the Social Media Context: Part 2—Application to Peer Group Processes and Future Directions for Research

“Sexy Selfies”. The Role of Social Media in Adolescents’ (Self-) Sexualization

Pornography and Sexual Behavior: Do Sexual Attitudes Mediate or Confound?

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