Although parent and youth report of mediation were similar, differences emerged. Specific types of parental media mediation are associated with reduced youth sexting, particularly restriction and active mediation. Age, SES, and parent respondent gender were associated with sending sexts. Parent and child reports of restrictive parenting were negatively associated with sending and receiving sexts active mediation was negatively associated with sending sexts and parent report of monitoring was positively associated with sending sexts. Logistic regression was used to test associations between media parenting and sexting, controlling for demographic and social covariates. Media parenting behaviors were measured by four scales (youth and parent report): active mediation, restriction, parental monitoring, and technology control. Youth reported on receiving (valid % = 14.5) and sending (valid % = 11.5) sexts. Parents and their 10-14-year-olds (N = 306 dyads) completed an online survey of technology use and online experiences. This study examines associations between parental media mediation and early adolescent sexting in a sample of U.S. Parenting practices may impact youth engagement in online risk behaviors. Last but not least, we discuss these findings, highlighting the possible implications of infidelity for the psychosocial and psychosexual development of adolescents.Įarly adolescent sexting has implications for health and wellbeing. emotional) dissatisfaction was indirectly related to lower psychological well-being through its effects on increased negative affect and hostility. The main results revealed that committing infidelity motivated by hypothetical sexual (vs. emotional dissatisfaction) on negative affect, hostility, and psychological well-being.
Through an experimental study (N = 301 Spanish adolescents (190 female and 111 male Mage = 15.59, SD = 0.69 range from 15 to 17), we sought to analyze the effect of manipulating two types of motivations for infidelity (sexual vs. Even less is known about the emotional impact of infidelity on the offending person and its association with hostile behavior and psychological well-being. However, little is known about this type of transgression in adolescent romantic relationships, although it manifests as a fairly frequent behavior involving different motivations. Infidelity is a relational process common in all types of romantic relationships and has been established as one of the main causes of relationship breakdown.
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