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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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Young Adults Remain Worse Off Than Adolescents

TL;DR: A new report based on a broad range of United States national datasets lays out the challenges that must be addressed in efforts to support young adults.
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Substance abuse in relation to religiosity and familial support in Iranian college students

TL;DR: The results show low prevalence of alcohol use and drug abuse in Iranian college students and determined some of its associated factors, which can be used for planning and evaluating interventions by considering risk and protective factors.
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The dark side of sexting – factors predicting the dissemination of sexts

TL;DR: Four unique predictors of increased likelihood of non-consensual dissemination are found: being sexually active, having received a disseminated sext, more strongly normalising that sexts are usually disseminated or seen by others, and stronger positive attitudes towards disseminatingsexts as being funny; and one unique predictor of decreased likelihood: having personally-experienced negative consequences from sending sxts.
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Sexting Behaviors and Cyber Pornography Addiction Among Adolescents: the Moderating Role of Alcohol Consumption

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between sexting, cyber pornography, and alcohol consumption, and found that alcohol restraint could represent a protective factor against engaging in sext, even in the presence of high cyber pornography addiction.

Risks, Risk Factors, and Outcomes Associated with Phone and Internet Sexting Among University Students in the United States

TL;DR: In this paper, a causal path model was used to evaluate the effect of personality and expectancies on sexual hookup behaviors through phone and social networking sites sexting behaviors in males and females.
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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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