Journal article
Prevalence and Correlates of Sexting Behaviors in a Provincially Representative Sample of Adolescents
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To examine the prevalence and correlates of sending and receiving sexts (i.e., sexually explicit images) in a provincially representative sample of adolescents in Canada.
METHODS: Data from the 2014 Ontario Child Health Study, a provincial survey of households with children in Ontario, which includes a sample of 2,537 adolescents aged 14 to 17 years (mean age = 15.42, male = 51.6%) were used to address the research objectives.
Authors
Kim S; Martin-Storey A; Drossos A; Barbosa S; Georgiades K
Journal
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 65, No. 6, pp. 401–408
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
June 2020
DOI
10.1177/0706743719895205
ISSN
0706-7437