A Prototype Willingness Approach to the Relation Between Geo-social Dating Apps and Willingness to Sext with Dating App Matches.

Despite voiced concerns about sexual online risk behaviors related to mobile dating, little is known about the relation between mobile dating and sexting. The current cross-sectional study (N = 286) examined the relations between the use of geo-social dating apps and emerging adults' willingness to...

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Publicado en:Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 1133 - 1146
Autores principales: Schreurs, Lara, Sumter, Sindy R., Vandenbosch, Laura
Formato: journal article
Publicado: Springer Nature May2020
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          Schreurs, Lara
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          Vandenbosch, Laura
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          School for Mass Communication Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Parkstraat 45, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
          Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), Brussels, Belgium
          Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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        Social dating
        Dating (Social customs)
        Risk-taking behavior
        Social media
        Attitude (Psychology)
        Cross-sectional method
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        Application software
        Online social networks
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          Social dating
          Dating (Social customs)
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          Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
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        Dating apps
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      ab: Despite voiced concerns about sexual online risk behaviors related to mobile dating, little is known about the relation between mobile dating and sexting. The current cross-sectional study (N = 286) examined the relations between the use of geo-social dating apps and emerging adults' willingness to sext with a dating app match. By drawing on the prototype willingness model, both a reasoned path and a social reaction path are proposed to explain this link. As for the reasoned path, a structural equation model showed that more frequent dating app usage is positively related to norm beliefs about peers' sexting behaviors with unknown dating app matches (i.e., descriptive norms), norm beliefs about peers' approval of sexting with matches (i.e., subjective norms), and negatively related to perceptions of danger to sext with matches (i.e., risk attitude). In turn, descriptive norms were positively and risk attitudes were negatively associated with individuals' own willingness to sext with someone they had met through a dating app. As for the social reaction path, it was found that more frequent dating app usage was positively related to emerging adults' favorable evaluations of a prototype person who sexts with unknown dating app matches (i.e., prototype perceptions). The analyses further revealed that such prototype perceptions positively linked with emerging adults' own willingness to sext with a match. These results were similar among women and men and help explain why individuals may be willing to engage in sexting behavior with unknown others.
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