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| Published: August 14, 2021
Relationship Between Sexting, Stress and Depression among Young Adults
Student, Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, India
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Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, India
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DIP: 18.01.066.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.066
ABSTRACT
Sexting (sending and receiving of explicit photos and text messages) among young adults have been continuously linked with its adverse effects on mental and physical health. The study sought to 1) identify relationship between sexting, stress and depression among young adults, and 2) examine the effect of sexting on people who are in relationship and examining their behavior. The sample consisted of 100 participants (18-30 yrs.) (mean age = 20.56years, SD= 1.88). The tools used were Sexting Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) and ASSD – BSPSA (English Version). The result was drawn using Mean, SD and Pearson’s Correlation for the statistical analysis of all the variables. Overall, 94% of the population did not engaged in sexting. They showed mild or no signs of stress and depression. Women were slightly more prevalent to stress and depression than males.
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Sexting, Depression, Stress, Anxiety, Victimization, Cyberbullying, Violence Abuse
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Dhar S.& Kumar N.
Received: May 22, 2021; Revision Received: July 26, 2021; Accepted: August 14, 2021
Simran Dhar @ dharsimu2000@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.066.20210903
10.25215/0903.066
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021