Steven Eggermont

TL;DR: For instance, this article investigated different types of cybersex behaviours among adolescents and examined whether the compensation and recreation hypothesis remain valid explanatory models in a context of more explicit types of online sex.

TL;DR: A number of studies have suggested that social media use may be negatively related to adolescents' well-being as discussed by the authors, and one explanation for this relation may lie in the internalization of various types of i...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how young people's connections on social network sites are related to their risk of being involved in cyberharassment and cyberbullying and found that the presence of many connections with fellow students who are not friends elevates the risk of cyber-harassment, and that perpetrators and victims have a disproportionally high number of connections based on unbalanced, weak friendships.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of playing sexualizing video games on adolescent boys' and girls' self-objectified body image were investigated and the effect of playing with a sexualized male or female avatar was not moderated by game frequency.

TL;DR: It was revealed that magazine exposure positively correlated with the internalization of appearance ideals and the attribution of social rewards to attractiveness which, in turn, related to social appearance anxiety.