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Sexting, Substance Use, and Sexual Risk Behavior in Young Adults

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Results suggest that sexting is robustly associated with high-risk sexual behavior, and at least some participants in this study were incurring new sexual risks after sexted.
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This article is published in Journal of Adolescent Health.The article was published on 2013-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 326 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poison control.

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Digital crime, trauma, and abuse: Internet safety and cyber risks for adolescents and emerging adults in the 21st century

TL;DR: The shift in the technology landscape has altered the technology ecosystem of adolescents and emerging adults in the 21st century as discussed by the authors. Yet, with greater use of digital gadgets comes greater mental heal...
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Sexting Behaviors among Adolescents in Rural North Carolina: A Theoretical Examination of Low Self-Control and Deviant Peer Association

TL;DR: This paper examined data from a sample of high school students in rural North Carolina to determine if low self-control and deviant peer association are constructs for explaining sexting among youth.
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Cyber Sexual Harassment: Prevalence and association with substance use, poor mental health, and STI history among sexually active adolescent girls

TL;DR: The findings suggest that in some subgroups, CSH appears to be affecting the majority of girls, which is especially concerning given its association with multiple poor health outcomes.
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Explicitly Pressing Send: Impact of Sexting on Relationship Satisfaction

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the prevalence of adults who sext, their sexting behaviors, and how it impacted relationship satisfaction and found that heterosexual women are negatively impacted if they do not reciprocate a sext message; yet nonheterosexual women, and men in general, are not negatively impacted.
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I Want Your Sext: Sexting and Sexual Risk in Emerging Adult Minority Men.

TL;DR: It is found that sexting is a frequent and reciprocal behavior among emerging adults, and there were different patterns of significance for sexts with casual and steady partners.
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Nonparametric Statistical Methods

TL;DR: An ideal text for an upper-level undergraduate or first-year graduate course, Nonparametric Statistical Methods, Second Edition is also an invaluable source for professionals who want to keep abreast of the latest developments within this dynamic branch of modern statistics.

Social Media & Mobile Internet Use among Teens and Young Adults. Millennials.

TL;DR: Pew Research Center report series that looks at the values, attitudes and experiences of America's next generation: the Millennials as mentioned in this paper found that since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults.
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Clinical Report—The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families

TL;DR: Pediatricians are in a unique position to help families understand these sites and to encourage healthy use and urge parents to monitor for potential problems with cyberbullying, “Facebook depression,” sexting, and exposure to inappropriate content.

Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults

TL;DR: A sharp decline in blogging by young adults has been tempered by a corresponding increase in blogging among older adults, and there are shifts and some drops in the proportion of teens using several social networking site features.
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