Exploring which factors contribute to teens' participation in sexting

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Highlights：

• It is important to differentiate sending, receiving, forwarding and receiving sexts.

• Being involved in sexting seems to increase the probability of continuing to engage in it.

• Cybergossip and need for popularity are important factors for sexting in girls.

• Normalization and willingness to sext have a greater predictive power among boys.

摘要

•It is important to differentiate sending, receiving, forwarding and receiving sexts.•Being involved in sexting seems to increase the probability of continuing to engage in it.•Cybergossip and need for popularity are important factors for sexting in girls.•Normalization and willingness to sext have a greater predictive power among boys.

论文关键词：Sexting,Need for popularity,Social competence,Cybergossip,Willingness to sext,Normalization

论文评审过程：Received 5 September 2018, Revised 14 June 2019, Accepted 20 June 2019, Available online 23 June 2019, Version of Record 29 June 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.06.010