Project title |
Sexting: Nude pictures and Internet. Pan-European Insafe Youth Panel Survey Sept./Oct. 2011.
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Country or countries |
Austria (AT); Belgium (BE); Bulgaria (BU); Cyprus (CY); Czech Republic (CZ); Denmark (DK); Estonia (EE); Finland (FI); France (FR); Germany (DE); Greece (EL); Hungary (HU); Ireland (IE); Italy (IT); Latvia (LV); Lithuania (LT); Luxembourg (LU); Malta (MT); Netherlands (NL); Poland (PL); Portugal (PT); Romania (RO); Slovakia (SL); Slovenia (SI); Spain (ES); Sweden (SE); United Kingdom (UK)
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Language(s) of report |
English
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Funder of research |
EC
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Date of fieldwork |
2011
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Main research focus |
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Target group studied |
Children
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| Methodology |
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Description of studied group |
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Age of children studied |
14; 15; 16; 17; 18
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Methodology |
Quantitative
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Size of sample |
394
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If survey, scope of sample |
Convenience
Sample
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| Topics covered |
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Activities; Risks and harm; Opportunities and benefits
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| Findings |
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• Girls use their mobile phones more often than boys; boys use their own PC more often.
• About one-third have had contact with sexting.
• When faced with a sexual reference online or on a mobile phone, children would feel surprised (40%), embarrassed (30%), afraid that others would see it (29%) and sometimes disgusted (22%) and uneasy (19%). They would also sometimes feel curious (25%), and like it (8%). Girls would feel significantly more embarrassed and boys more curious.
• Motivations for posting sexual content are to get noticed by another person (47%), stupidity (45%), to attract the attention of a person he/she likes (28%), and even being forced to (14%).
• Negative consequences of posting sexual references as perceived by young people is the possibility of meeting dangerous people (57%), getting into trouble with parents (49%), being sexually abused (45%) and gradually ending up in prostituting one’s self (12.8%).
• There are no big differences between countries.
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| Further information |
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Relevant publications |
Buchegger, B. (2011). Sexting: Nude pictures and Internet. Results of Pan European insafe youth Panel survey. Retrieved August 8, 2012, from http://www.saferinternet.at/fileadmin/files/Online_Communities_Studie/Sexting_survey_nov11.pptx.pdf
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Report accessibility |
Brief summary available online
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URL of report |
http://www.saferinternet.at/fileadmin/files/Onlin...
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Dataset publicly available |
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Contact details of investigator |
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