555
Views
11
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

The role of peer networks in adolescent pornography use and sexting in Croatia

, & ORCID Icon
Pages 110-127 | Received 06 Aug 2018, Accepted 25 Jun 2019, Published online: 10 Jul 2019

References

  • Abrahamson, E., & Rosenkopf, L. (1997). Social network effects on the extent of innovation diffusion: A computer simulation. Organization Science, 8(3), 289–309.
  • Ajilore, O. (2015). Identifying peer effects using spatial analysis: The role of peers on risky sexual behavior. Review of Economics of the Household, 13(3), 635–652.
  • Ali, M. M., & Dwyer, D. S. (2011). Estimating peer effects in sexual behavior among adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 34(1), 183–190.
  • Baćak, V., & Štulhofer, A. (2011). Masturbation among sexually active young women in Croatia: Associations with religiosity and pornography use. International Journal of Sexual Health, 23(4), 248–257.
  • Barrense-Dias, Y., Berchtold, A., Surís, J.-C., & Akre, C. (2017). Sexting and the definition issue. Journal of Adolescent Health, 61(5), 544–554.
  • Baumeister, R. F., & Stillman, T. F. (2006). Erotic plasticity: Nature, culture, gender, and sexuality. In R. D. McAnulty & M. M. Burnette (Eds.), Sex and sexuality (Vol. 3, pp. 343–359). Westport: CT.
  • Baumgartner, S. E., Sumter, S. R., Peter, J., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2015). Sexual self-presentation on social network sites: Who does it and how is it perceived? Computers in Human Behavior, 50, 91–100.
  • Baumgartner, S. E., Valkenburg, P. M., & Peter, J. (2011). The influence of descriptive and injunctive peer norms on adolescents’ risky sexual online behavior. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networks, 14, 753–758.
  • Bearman, P. S., Moody, J., & Stovel, K. (2004). Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks. American Journal of Sociology, 110(1), 44–91.
  • Beck, K. H., & Treiman, K. A. (1996). The relationship of social context of drinking, perceived social norms, and parental influence to various drinking patterns of adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 21(5), 633–644.
  • Benotsch, E. G., Snipes, D. J., Martin, A. M., & Bull, S. S. (2013). Sexting, substance use, and sexual risk behavior in young adults. Journal of Adolescent Health, 52, 307–313.
  • Bordini, G. S., & Sperb, T. M. (2010). Sexual double standard: A review of the literature between 2001 and 2010. Sexuality and Culture, 17(4), 686–704.
  • Borgatti, S. P., Everett, M. G., & Johnson, J. C. (2013). Analyzing social networks. London: Sage.
  • Božić, J., Baćak, V., & Štulhofer, A. (2011). Sexual conversation networks and young adults’ sexual health in a Southeast-European context. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 20(4), 167–179.
  • Brechwald, W. A., & Prinstein, M. J. (2011). Beyond homophily: A decade of advances in understanding peer influence processes. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 21(1), 166–179.
  • Brooks-Gunn, J., & Furstenberg, F. F., Jr. (1989). Adolescent sexual behavior. American Psychologist, 44(2), 249–257.
  • Brown, B. B. (1989). The role of peer groups in adolescents’ adjustment to secondary school. In T. J. Berndt & G. W. Ladd (Eds.), Peer relationships in child development (pp. 188–215). Oxford, England: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Brown, M. B., & Forsythe, A. B. (1974). Robust tests for the equality of variances. Journal of The American Statistical Association, 69(346), 364–367.
  • Burnham, K. P., & Anderson, D. R. (2004). Multimodel inference: Understanding AIC and BIC in model selection. Sociological Methods & Research, 33(2), 261–304.
  • Coley, R. L., Lombardi, C. M., Lynch, A. D., Mahalik, J. R., & Sims, J. (2013). Sexual partner accumulation from adolescence through early adulthood: The role of family, peer, and school social norms. Journal of Adolescent Health, 53(1), 91–97.
  • Dake, J. A., Price, J. H., Maziarz, L., & Ward, B. (2012). Prevalence and correlates of sexting behavior in adolescents. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 7(1), 1–15.
  • Gordon-Messer, D., Bauermeister, J. A., Grodzinski, A., & Zimmerman, M. (2013). Sexting among young adults. Journal of Adolescent Health, 52, 301–306.
  • Gregg, D., Somers, C. L., Pernice, F. M., Hillman, S. B., & Kernsmith, P. (2018). Sexting rates and predictors from an urban midwest high school. Journal of School Health, 88(6), 423–433.
  • Hausman, J. A., & McFadden, D. L. (1984). Specification tests for the multinomial logit model. Econometrica, 52(5), 1219–1240.
  • Hurvich, C. M., & Tsai, C. L. (1989). Regression and time series model selection in small samples. Biometrika, 76(2), 297–307.
  • Kadushin, C. (2012). Understanding social networks: Theories, concepts, and findings. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Klettke, B., Hallford, D. J., & Mellor, D. J. (2014). Sexting prevalence and correlates: A systematic literature review. Clinical Psychology Review, 34(1), 44–53.
  • Kohut, T., & Štulhofer, A. (2018). Is pornography use a risk for adolescent well-being? An examination of temporal relationships in two independent panel samples. PloS One, 13(8), e0202048.
  • Koletić, G. (2017). Longitudinal associations between the use of sexually explicit material and adolescents’ attitudes and behaviors: A narrative review of studies. Journal of Adolescence, 57, 119–133.
  • Kreager, D. A., & Staff, J. (2009). The sexual double standard and adolescent peer acceptance. Social Psychology Quarterly, 72(2), 143–164.
  • Kuttler, A. F., & La Greca, A. M. (2004). Linkages among adolescent girls’ romantic relationships, best friendships, and peer networks. Journal of Adolescence, 27(4), 395–414.
  • Lam, D., Marteleto, L. J., & Ranchhod, V. (2013). The influence of older classmates on adolescent sexual behavior in Cape Town, South Africa. Studies in Family Planning, 44(2), 147–167.
  • Lee, C. H., Moak, S., & Walker, J. T. (2016). Effects of self-control, social control, and social learning on sexting behavior among South Korean youths. Youth & Society, 48(2), 242–264.
  • Livingstone, S., & Haddon, L. (2008). Risky experiences for children online: Charting European research on children and the internet. Children and Society, 22(4), 314–323.
  • Löfgren-Mårtenson, L., & Månsson, S. A. (2010). Lust, love, and life: A qualitative study of Swedish adolescents’ perceptions and experiences with pornography. Journal of Sex Research, 47(6), 568–579.
  • Madigan, S., Ly, A., Rash, C. L., Van Ouytsel, J., & Temple, J. R. (2018). Prevalence of multiple forms of sexting behavior among youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Jama Pediatrics, 172(4), 327–335.
  • Marsden, P. V. (1990). Network data and measurement. Annual Review of Sociology, 16, 435–463.
  • Marsden, P. V. (2005). Recent developments in network measurement. In P. J. Carrington, J. Scott, & S.Wasserman (Eds.), Models and methods in social network analysis(pp. 8–30). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Matković, T., Cohen, N., & Štulhofer, A. (2018). The use of sexually explicit material and its relationship to adolescent sexual activity. Journal of Adolescent Health, 62(5), 563–569.
  • Mayeux, L., Sandstrom, M. J., & Cillessen, A. H. (2008). Is being popular a risky proposition? Journal of Research on Adolescence, 18(1), 49–74.
  • Mercken, L., Steglich, C., Sinclair, P., Holliday, J., & Moore, L. (2012). A longitudinal social network analysis of peer influence, peer selection, and smoking behavior among adolescents in British schools. Health Psychology, 31(4), 450–459.
  • Mitchell, K. J., Wolak, J., & Finkelhor, D. (2007). Trends in youth reports of sexual solicitations, harassment and unwanted exposure to pornography on the Internet. Journal of Adolescent Health, 40(2), 116–126.
  • Peter, J., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2016). Adolescents and pornography: A review of 20 years of research. Journal of Sex Research, 53(4–5), 509–531.
  • Petersen, J. L., & Hyde, J. S. (2010). A meta-analytic review of research on gender differences in sexuality. Psychological Bulletin, 136(1), 21–38.
  • Prinstein, M. J., Meade, C. S., & Cohen, G. L. (2003). Adolescent oral sex, peer popularity, and perceptions of best friends’ sexual behavior. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 28(4), 243–249.
  • Ringrose, J., Gill, R., Livingstone, S., & Harvey, L. (2016). A qualitative study of children, young people and “sexting”: A report prepared for the NSPCC.
  • Rodgers, J. L., & Rowe, D. C. (1993). Social contagion and adolescent sexual behavior: A developmental EMOSA model. Psychological Review, 100(3), 479–510.
  • Rostosky, S. S., Wilcox, B. L., Wright, M. L. C., & Randall, B. A. (2004). The impact of religiosity on adolescent sexual behavior: A review of the evidence. Journal of Adolescent Research, 19(6), 677–697.
  • Rudolph, K. D., & Conley, C. S. (2005). The socioemotional costs and benefits of social‐evaluative concerns: Do girls care too much? Journal of Personality, 73(1), 115–138.
  • Sabina, C., Wolak, J., & Finkelhor, D. (2008). The nature and dynamics of Internet pornography exposure for youth. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 11(6), 691–693.
  • Short, M. B., Black, L., Smith, A. H., Wetterneck, C. T., & Wells, D. E. (2012). A review of Internet pornography use research: Methodology and content from the past 10 years. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, 15(1), 13–23.
  • Simons-Morton, B. G., & Farhat, T. (2010). Recent findings on peer group influences on adolescent smoking. Journal of Primary Prevention, 31(4), 191–208.
  • Štulhofer, A., Šoh, D., Jelaska, N., Baćak, V., & Landripet, I. (2011). Religiosity and sexual risk behavior among Croatian college students, 1998–2008. Journal of Sex Research, 48(4), 360–371.
  • Temple, J. R., Le, V. D., Berg, P., Ling, Y., Paul, J. A., Temple, B. W., … de Bongardt, D. (2014). Brief report: Teen sexting and psychosocial health. Journal of Adolescence, 37(1), 33–36.
  • Valente, T. W. (2010). Social networks and health: Models, methods, and applications. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • van de Bongardt, D., Reitz, E., Sandfort, T., & Deković, M. (2015). A meta-analysis of the relations between three types of peer norms and adolescent sexual behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 19(3), 203–234.
  • Van Ouytsel, J., Ponnet, K., Walrave, M., & D’Haenens, L. (2017). Adolescent sexting from a social learning perspective. Telematics and Informatics, 34(1), 287–298.
  • Vanden Abeele, M., Campbell, S. W., Eggermont, S., & Roe, K. (2014). Sexting, mobile porn use, and peer group dynamics: Boys’ and girls’ self-perceived popularity, need for popularity, and perceived peer pressure. Media Psychology, 17, 6–33.
  • Vandoninck, S., Haenens, L., & Donoso, V. (2010). Digital literacy of Flemish youth: How do they handle online content risks? European Journal of Communication, 35(4), 397–416.
  • Wang, R., Bianchi, S. M., & Raley, S. B. (2005). Teenagers’ Internet use and family rules: A research note. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67(5), 1249–1258.
  • Weber, M., Quiring, O., & Daschmann, G. (2012). Peers, parents and pornography: Exploring adolescents’ exposure to sexually explicit material and its developmental correlates. Sexuality & Culture, 16(4), 408–427.
  • Wright, P. J. (2011). Mass media effects on youth sexual behavior: Assessing the claim for causality. Communication Yearbook, 35, 343–386.
  • Wright, P. J., & Donnerstein, E. (2014). Sex online: pornography, sexual solicitation, and sexting. Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, 25(3), 574–589.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.