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The Impact of Adolescent Internet Addiction on Sexual Online Victimization: The Mediating Effects of Sexting and Body Self-Esteem

Inmaculada Montoya-castillaKonstanze SchoepsAlicia TamaritMontserrat Peris-hernández

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sextingAdolescentHealth Toxicology and Mutagenesismedia_common.quotation_subjectSexual Behavioreducation050109 social psychologybody self-esteemArticleStructural equation modelingCyberbullyingDevelopmental psychologyAnimalsHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSocial mediaAssociation (psychology)ChildCrime Victimsmedia_commongroomingInternetGeekbusiness.industryAddiction05 social sciencesRPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthSelf-esteemMental healthstructural equation modeling (SEM)humanitiesinternet addictionsextortionAdolescent BehaviorSpainbehavior and behavior mechanismsMedicineThe InternetFemalebusinessPsychologyInternet Addiction Disorder050104 developmental & child psychology

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Adolescents’ problematic use of the internet and the risk of sexual online victimization are an increasing concern among families, researchers, professionals and society. This study aimed to analyze the interplay between adolescents’ addiction to social networks and internet, body self-esteem and sexual–erotic risk behavior online: sexting, sextortion and grooming. While sexting refers to the voluntary engagement in texting sexual–erotic messages, sextortion and grooming are means of sexual–erotic victimization through the use of the internet. Participants were 1763 adolescents (51% girls), aged 12 to 16 years (M = 14.56

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2021-04-16
http://hdl.handle.net/10810/51263