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Sexting and Mental Health in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study
Journal of Adolescent Health ( IF 5.5 ) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2024.04.018
Lars Roar Frøyland 1 , Rikke Tokle 1 , Jasmina Burdzovic Andreas 2 , Geir Scott Brunborg 3
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Research has shown that sexting—the practice of sending, receiving, and forwarding sexual messages on digital media services—is associated with poor mental health. However, few studies have moved beyond cross-sectional designs, demonstrating that individuals who engage in sexting differ in mental health from those who do not. The purpose of our study was to investigate whether sexting was associated with increases in depression symptoms and conduct problems over time. We analyzed data from three rounds of the longitudinal MyLife study among Norwegian adolescents ( = 3,000). The participants completed e-questionnaires containing instruments on sexting and mental health at three annual assessments. Random intercept cross-lagged panel models were estimated to examine the effect of sexting on within-person changes in mental health, measured one year later. We also examined the potential reverse order of the effects. In accordance with findings from cross-sectional research, the analyses showed that boys who frequently engaged in sexting also reported more depression symptoms and conduct problems. For girls, we found only a significant between-person association for sexting and depression symptoms. However, sexting was not predictive of changes in depression symptoms or conduct problems over time. On the contrary, conduct problems predicted increased sexting scores but only for girls. Our results suggest that efforts to reduce sexting may not prevent mental health problems among young people. Intervention efforts should thus redirect attention from sexting as a driver of individual mental health problems to educating adolescents on how to perform safe and responsible sexting.

中文翻译:


青少年性短信与心理健康:一项纵向研究



研究表明,色情短信(在数字媒体服务上发送、接收和转发性信息的做法)与心理健康状况不佳有关。然而,很少有研究超越横断面设计,证明发送色情短信的人与不发送色情短信的人在心理健康方面存在差异。我们研究的目的是调查色情短信是否与随着时间的推移抑郁症状和行为问题的增加有关。我们分析了挪威青少年 (= 3,000) 的三轮 MyLife 纵向研究的数据。参与者在三次年度评估中完成了包含色情短信和心理健康工具的电子问卷。估计随机拦截交叉滞后面板模型来检查一年后测量的色情短信对人内心理健康变化的影响。我们还研究了影响的潜在相反顺序。根据横断面研究的结果,分析表明,经常发送色情短信的男孩也报告了更多的抑郁症状和行为问题。对于女孩来说,我们只发现性短信和抑郁症状之间存在显着的人际关联。然而,色情短信并不能预测抑郁症状或行为问题随时间的变化。相反,行为问题预示着性短信得分会增加,但仅限于女孩。我们的研究结果表明,减少色情短信的努力可能无法预防年轻人的心理健康问题。因此,干预工作应将注意力从色情短信作为个人心理健康问题的驱动因素转移到教育青少年如何安全、负责任地发送色情短信。
更新日期:2024-06-08
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