What risk factors drives adolescent girls to post sexual content online?
STUDENT NAME, NUMBER
Course: Critical Analysis of Parenting, Educational and Care Issues: an ecological system
approach
Course code: 201600204
Seminar number: X
Seminar teacher: X
September 29, 2021
Wordcount: 363
, Introduction
Today's world is digitalized in such a way that everything can be found and sent with
the click of a button. In the Netherlands between 98-99% of school-attending children and
adolescents are in possession of a smartphone (CBS, 2019). From a developmental
perspective the rise of technology and raging hormones, brings several risks for teenagers
who spend a significant amount of time on digital media and engage in online risky behaviors
(Hernandez et al., 2021). As such the use of digital media has become a new form of
engaging in intimate sexual communication attuned to today’s technology-driven society
(Gámez-Guadix & de Santisteban, 2018). This is also known as the rising phenomenon
sexting.
The definition as well as the differentiation in degree of sexting can be explained in
terms of primary and secondary sexting. Sexting is defined as a media term for sending
sexual images, videos or content via text messaging or uploading sexual content to websites
(Mori et al., 2020). According to the Nederlandse Jeugdinstituut and other studies, an average
of 10% of adolescents engage in sexting behaviors and it is estimated that this number is
significantly higher (NJI, n.d.). Moreover, an approximate of 3.5% of Dutch adolescents
engaged in sexting in the last six months of 2019 (Gezondheidsmonitor Jeugd 2019 GGD &
RIVM, 2019).
From a cultural perspective the prevalence of sexting varies per country, personality
traits, demographic characteristics (Gámez-Guadix & de Santisteban, 2018). From a
developmental perspective it can be observed sexting increases with age (Gil-Llario, 2020;
Madigan et al., 2018) and puberty (Cooper et al., 2016; Šmahel and Subrahmanyam, 2014).
Although there is limited research on the prevalence and risks of sexting among adolescents
(Hernández et al., 2021), studies have shown that the phenomenon of sexting becomes
problematic when involving minors. Some of the consequences include humiliation,
STUDENT NAME, NUMBER
Course: Critical Analysis of Parenting, Educational and Care Issues: an ecological system
approach
Course code: 201600204
Seminar number: X
Seminar teacher: X
September 29, 2021
Wordcount: 363
, Introduction
Today's world is digitalized in such a way that everything can be found and sent with
the click of a button. In the Netherlands between 98-99% of school-attending children and
adolescents are in possession of a smartphone (CBS, 2019). From a developmental
perspective the rise of technology and raging hormones, brings several risks for teenagers
who spend a significant amount of time on digital media and engage in online risky behaviors
(Hernandez et al., 2021). As such the use of digital media has become a new form of
engaging in intimate sexual communication attuned to today’s technology-driven society
(Gámez-Guadix & de Santisteban, 2018). This is also known as the rising phenomenon
sexting.
The definition as well as the differentiation in degree of sexting can be explained in
terms of primary and secondary sexting. Sexting is defined as a media term for sending
sexual images, videos or content via text messaging or uploading sexual content to websites
(Mori et al., 2020). According to the Nederlandse Jeugdinstituut and other studies, an average
of 10% of adolescents engage in sexting behaviors and it is estimated that this number is
significantly higher (NJI, n.d.). Moreover, an approximate of 3.5% of Dutch adolescents
engaged in sexting in the last six months of 2019 (Gezondheidsmonitor Jeugd 2019 GGD &
RIVM, 2019).
From a cultural perspective the prevalence of sexting varies per country, personality
traits, demographic characteristics (Gámez-Guadix & de Santisteban, 2018). From a
developmental perspective it can be observed sexting increases with age (Gil-Llario, 2020;
Madigan et al., 2018) and puberty (Cooper et al., 2016; Šmahel and Subrahmanyam, 2014).
Although there is limited research on the prevalence and risks of sexting among adolescents
(Hernández et al., 2021), studies have shown that the phenomenon of sexting becomes
problematic when involving minors. Some of the consequences include humiliation,
