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Prevalence of sending, receiving and forwarding sexts among youths: A three-level meta-analysis
By systematic review with a three-level, mixed-effects meta-analysis, this paper examines the prevalence of sexting experiences among youths aimed at analyzing conceptual and methodological moderators that might explain its heterogeneity. A search was conducted of five bibliographic databases and gr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33284862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243653 |
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author | Molla-Esparza, Cristian Losilla, Josep-Maria López-González, Emelina |
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description | By systematic review with a three-level, mixed-effects meta-analysis, this paper examines the prevalence of sexting experiences among youths aimed at analyzing conceptual and methodological moderators that might explain its heterogeneity. A search was conducted of five bibliographic databases and grey literature up until February 2020. The risk of bias in primary studies was assessed. A total of seventy-nine articles met the set inclusion criteria. Mean prevalences for sending, receiving and forwarding sexts were .14 (95% CI: .12, .17), .31 (95% CI: .26, .36) and .07 (95% CI: .05, .09), respectively, expressed as fractions over one. Moderator analyses showed that all sexting experiences increased with age (e.g., the mean prevalence for sending sexts at the age of 12 was .04, whereas, at the age of 16, it was .21) and year of data collection (e.g., the mean prevalence for sending sexts in studies collecting data in 2009 was .07, whereas, in studies collecting data in 2018, it was .33). Subgroup analysis revealed that studies with probabilistic samples led to significantly lower mean prevalences for the sexting experiences of sending (.08, 95% CI: .06, .11), receiving (.19, 95% CI: .15, .24) and forwarding sexts (.04, 95% CI: .03, .07). Self-reported administration procedures also led to more homogeneous prevalence estimates than interviews. Prevalence estimates also varied according to the type of media content (e.g., the mean prevalence for sending sexual text messages was .22, whereas, for sending sexual images or videos, it was .12). Overall, our meta-analysis results suggest high and increasing prevalences of sending and receiving sexts among youths. |
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spelling | pubmed-77211442020-12-15 Prevalence of sending, receiving and forwarding sexts among youths: A three-level meta-analysis Molla-Esparza, Cristian Losilla, Josep-Maria López-González, Emelina PLoS One Research Article By systematic review with a three-level, mixed-effects meta-analysis, this paper examines the prevalence of sexting experiences among youths aimed at analyzing conceptual and methodological moderators that might explain its heterogeneity. A search was conducted of five bibliographic databases and grey literature up until February 2020. The risk of bias in primary studies was assessed. A total of seventy-nine articles met the set inclusion criteria. Mean prevalences for sending, receiving and forwarding sexts were .14 (95% CI: .12, .17), .31 (95% CI: .26, .36) and .07 (95% CI: .05, .09), respectively, expressed as fractions over one. Moderator analyses showed that all sexting experiences increased with age (e.g., the mean prevalence for sending sexts at the age of 12 was .04, whereas, at the age of 16, it was .21) and year of data collection (e.g., the mean prevalence for sending sexts in studies collecting data in 2009 was .07, whereas, in studies collecting data in 2018, it was .33). Subgroup analysis revealed that studies with probabilistic samples led to significantly lower mean prevalences for the sexting experiences of sending (.08, 95% CI: .06, .11), receiving (.19, 95% CI: .15, .24) and forwarding sexts (.04, 95% CI: .03, .07). Self-reported administration procedures also led to more homogeneous prevalence estimates than interviews. Prevalence estimates also varied according to the type of media content (e.g., the mean prevalence for sending sexual text messages was .22, whereas, for sending sexual images or videos, it was .12). Overall, our meta-analysis results suggest high and increasing prevalences of sending and receiving sexts among youths. Public Library of Science 2020-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7721144/ /pubmed/33284862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243653 Text en © 2020 Molla-Esparza et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Molla-Esparza, Cristian Losilla, Josep-Maria López-González, Emelina Prevalence of sending, receiving and forwarding sexts among youths: A three-level meta-analysis |
title | Prevalence of sending, receiving and forwarding sexts among youths: A three-level meta-analysis |
title_full | Prevalence of sending, receiving and forwarding sexts among youths: A three-level meta-analysis |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of sending, receiving and forwarding sexts among youths: A three-level meta-analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of sending, receiving and forwarding sexts among youths: A three-level meta-analysis |
title_short | Prevalence of sending, receiving and forwarding sexts among youths: A three-level meta-analysis |
title_sort | prevalence of sending, receiving and forwarding sexts among youths: a three-level meta-analysis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7721144/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33284862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243653 |
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