Sexual coercion in adolescence: From non-consensual sexuality to sexuality under constraint

Physically distant, virtually close: Adolescents’ sexting behaviors during a strict lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic

“…We especially warn for the gendered nature of such technology-facilitated sexual coercion given that girls were more likely to engage in the most explicit sexting type as a response to partner pressure. Similar results have previously been found with studies demonstrating that girls are more often the victim of offline and online sexual coercion, in comparison to boys ( Glowacz et al, 2018 ; Reed et al, 2017 ). With the exceptional context of the COVID-19 pandemic possibly intensifying detrimental outcomes of sexual coercion ( Jatmiko et al, 2020 ), future research may especially want to study whether girls’ engagement in sexting as a response to partner pressure can also be linked to offline forms of sexual coercion.…”

Prevalence of teen dating violence in Europe: A systematic review of studies since 2010

“…(2020) and Izaguirre and Calvete (2017) also showed some similarity (30.1% for female and 34.5% for male adolescents; 36.2% for female and 33.5% for male adolescents, respectively). Similar rates, but substantially lower than in the Spanish studies, were also identified in Belgium (Glowacz et al., 2018) and in Germany (Kliem et al., 2018) (4.8% for female and 4.8% for male adolescents; 8.2% for female and 3.5% for male adolescents, respectively). Regarding psychological TDV victimization, only a few similar rates were identified for female adolescents, if studies based on representative or random samples were considered (e.g., 56.9% by Kliem et al., 2018; 57.0% by Dosil et al., 2020; 64.8% by Esparza‐Martínez et al., 2019), but not for male adolescents (range: 7.9%–68.0%; Dosil et al., 2020; Esparza‐Martínez et al., 2019; Izaguirre & Calvete, 2017; Kliem et al., 2018; see also Table 3).…”

“…Also, the Belgian study by Glowacz et al. (2018) and the German study by Beckmann et al. (2019) were similar to each other (0.9% for female and 1.6% for male adolescents; 0.8% for female and 2.6% for male adolescents, respectively).…”

“…Hence, this suggests that a more harmonized approach with respect to research methodology may present a pathway to provide comparable data. However, considering studies in other countries that are also based on the CADRI revealed that one study from Belgium (Glowacz et al., 2018) and one from Germany (Kliem et al., 2018) were similar to each other in terms of sexual TDV victimization and perpetration but different from all other mentioned Spanish studies. However, in terms of physical TDV perpetration, some similarity was found between a German study (Beckmann et al., 2019) and two Spanish studies (Calvete et al., 2016; Izaguirre & Calvete, 2017), leaving the picture of comparison between the countries inconclusive.…”

“…Five samples, two from Germany (Beckmann et al., 2019; Kliem et al., 2018) and three from Spain (Calvete et al., 2016; Cava et al., 2015; Cava, Martínez‐Ferrer, et al., 2020), met all criteria of quality and achieved a total score of 0. Six samples, one from Germany (Blättner et al., 2015), two from Spain (Dosil et al., 2019; Fernández‐González et al., 2013), two from the United Kingdom (Stanley et al., 2018; Young et al., 2018), and one from Italy (Stanley et al., 2018) scored 4, and three further samples, one from Belgium (Glowacz et al., 2018), one from Portugal (Dixe et al., 2020), and one from Spain (Sebastián et al., 2014), scored 5. All other studies presented 1, 2, or 3 points.…”