Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SEXUAL AND RELATIONSHIP THERAPY, cilt.39, sa.1, ss.35-45, 2024 (SSCI)
Introduction: The aim of this study is to determine the sexting
behavior among adults, the cause of sexting, consequences of
sexting and to evaluate the relationship between risky sexual
behavior and self-esteem
Methods: The study was completed with 5464 participants. The
individuals were grouped as the sender, recipient, or two-way
sexter. The 10-item second section evaluates self-esteem
(Rosenberg), and the 10-item third section evaluates risky sexual
behavior (Stulhofer).
Results: Mean age was 27.63 ± 7.95 years and 71.3% of the participants
were male. Sexting rate of the participants was 55.5%. Who
never had sexting 27.1%, and who sent and received sexual messages
was 56.4% and 72.0%, respectively. Although there was no
significant correlation between self-esteem and sexting behavior.
Over 25 years old were 2.19 times, bisexuals and gay/lesbian 2.02
times, single individuals 2.65 times, and those exhibiting risky
sexual behaviors were 2.35 times more prone to sexting
behavior
Conclusion: This study was conducted on sexting with large participation
in Turkey more than half of the participants exhibited
sexting was higher especially among young adults. Even though
there was no relationship between self-esteem and sexting behavior,
it was found that the rate of sexting behavior was higher in
individuals with risky sexual behavior.
Lay Summary
We report sexting among Turkish adults. In all with our knowledge
this is first study about sexting behavior in Turkey. Turkey is look
like half Europe and half middle east because of that it is good
to show behavior about sexting and risky sexual behavior in this
population.