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Not all Online Sexual Activities Are the Same

Young people's use and participation in online sexual activities (OSA) has increased in the past two decades and has changed their behavior in the area of sexuality. The existing literature has some important limitations, concerning the assessment of the construct and its orientation toward pro...

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Autores principales: Barrada, Juan Ramón, Ruiz-Gómez, Paula, Correa, Ana Belén, Castro, Ángel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6399151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30863340
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00339
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author Barrada, Juan Ramón
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description Young people's use and participation in online sexual activities (OSA) has increased in the past two decades and has changed their behavior in the area of sexuality. The existing literature has some important limitations, concerning the assessment of the construct and its orientation toward problematic use, while ignoring its healthy use or social participation and its relationship with well-being. The main objective of this study was to analyze the relationships between the three types of OSA (compulsive, isolated, and social) proposed by Delmonico and Miller, as well as offline sexual behavior, and psychosexual well-being. It was also necessary to evaluate the factor structure of the Internet Sexual Screening Test (ISST). Participants were 1,147 university students of both sexes, aged between 18 and 26 years, who completed a battery of online questionnaires. The main finding of the study is that, when controlling for other online sexual behavior, different types of OSA evaluated relate differently to offline sexual behavior and to psychosexual well-being, and that most young people made healthy use and participation of OSA. It also presents a new structure of the ISST. The discussion emphasizes the need to recognize the positive consequences of OSA to implement programs for the promotion of sexual health.
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spelling pubmed-63991512019-03-12 Not all Online Sexual Activities Are the Same Barrada, Juan Ramón Ruiz-Gómez, Paula Correa, Ana Belén Castro, Ángel Front Psychol Psychology Young people's use and participation in online sexual activities (OSA) has increased in the past two decades and has changed their behavior in the area of sexuality. The existing literature has some important limitations, concerning the assessment of the construct and its orientation toward problematic use, while ignoring its healthy use or social participation and its relationship with well-being. The main objective of this study was to analyze the relationships between the three types of OSA (compulsive, isolated, and social) proposed by Delmonico and Miller, as well as offline sexual behavior, and psychosexual well-being. It was also necessary to evaluate the factor structure of the Internet Sexual Screening Test (ISST). Participants were 1,147 university students of both sexes, aged between 18 and 26 years, who completed a battery of online questionnaires. The main finding of the study is that, when controlling for other online sexual behavior, different types of OSA evaluated relate differently to offline sexual behavior and to psychosexual well-being, and that most young people made healthy use and participation of OSA. It also presents a new structure of the ISST. The discussion emphasizes the need to recognize the positive consequences of OSA to implement programs for the promotion of sexual health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6399151/ /pubmed/30863340 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00339 Text en Copyright © 2019 Barrada, Ruiz-Gómez, Correa and Castro. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Not all Online Sexual Activities Are the Same
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title_short Not all Online Sexual Activities Are the Same
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6399151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30863340
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00339
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