Data from: Sex-related online behaviors, perceived peer norms and adolescents’ experience with sexual behavior: testing an integrative model
Research on the role of sex-related Internet use in adolescents’ sexual development has often isolated the Internet and online behaviors from other, offline influencing factors in adolescents’ lives, such as processes in the peer domain. The aim of this study was to test an integrative model explain...
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Zusammenfassung: | Research on the role of sex-related Internet use in adolescents’ sexual
development has often isolated the Internet and online behaviors from
other, offline influencing factors in adolescents’ lives, such as
processes in the peer domain. The aim of this study was to test an
integrative model explaining how receptive (i.e., use of sexually explicit
Internet material [SEIM]) and interactive (i.e., use of social networking
sites [SNS]) sex-related online behaviors interrelate with perceived peer
norms in predicting adolescents’ experience with sexual behavior.
Structural equation modeling on longitudinal data from 1,132 Dutch
adolescents (Mage T1 = 13.95; range 11-17; 52.7% boys) demonstrated
concurrent, direct, and indirect effects between sex-related online
behaviors, perceived peer norms, and experience with sexual behavior. SEIM
use (among boys) and SNS use (among boys and girls) predicted increases in
adolescents’ perceptions of peer approval of sexual behavior and/or in
their estimates of the numbers of sexually active peers. These
perceptions, in turn, predicted increases in adolescents’ level of
experience with sexual behavior at the end of the study. Boys’ SNS use
also directly predicted increased levels of experience with sexual
behavior. These findings highlight the need for multisystemic research and
intervention development to promote adolescents’ sexual health. |
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DOI: | 10.5061/dryad.96bc0 |