Sending One's Own Intimate Image: Sexting Among Middle-School Teens.
Yara Barrense-Dias, Lorraine Chok, Sophie Stadelmann and 2 others
PMID 35174499WHAT IT FOUND
3.7% of Swiss 13-14-year-olds reported sending a sexually related image once and 3.3% reported sending several times.
Senders were more likely to report receiving sexually related images without asking; repeated senders were more likely to report cyberbullying victimization. Boys and girls were similar.
Key findings
013.7% of pupils reported sending a sexually related image once and 3.3% reported sending several times; 93.0% reported never sending.
02Pupils who sent an image once or several times were more likely than non-senders to report receiving sexually related images without asking; pupils who sent several times were also more likely to report cyberbullying victimization.
03Among pupils who had sent an image, 41.8% reported nude explicit content, and nude explicit content was associated with having sent several times rather than once.
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What it does not show
Answers were self-reported, so pupils may have under-reported sexting because it is illegal under 16 or over-reported to show off. The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show whether sexting causes cyberbullying, whether cyberbullying causes sexting, or what happened first. The questionnaire did not record whether sending was consensual, pressured, or the reason for the first image. Family financial situation was based on pupils' perception, not objective household income. The sample came from French-speaking Swiss schools, so rates and associations may not apply elsewhere.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that sexting causes poor mental health or that girls are the main senders. Boys and girls reported similar sending, and the survey cannot show causality.