Publication details
Sevcikova, A, & Smahel, D. (2010). Exposure to Sexually Explicit Materials among Czech Early Adolescents: Comparison with European Youth. Konference Cyberspace 2010, Brno
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
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| Description | Adolescents grow up surrounded by media, bringing them several risks, such as exposure to sexually explicit materials. However, only a few studies have focused on exposure to sexually explicit materials in early adolescence and compared psycho-social correlates of such behaviour across countries, both of which are goals of this study. The data comes from the EU Kids Online II project, which contains representative samples of at least 1,000 youth aged 9 to 16 years from 25 European countries. In this study, a subsample of youth aged 10 to15 years (N = 17.720) is analysed. In the Czech Republic 44% of early adolescents reported exposure to sexually-explicit materials, whereas older youths reported greater exposure, however, there were no significant gender differences. Twenty-seven percent of those who have seen some sexual material on the Internet were bothered by this experience; younger adolescents and girls were bothered more often than older youths and boys. Comparing the groups of pornography viewers and non viewers while controlling age, viewers were more prone to other forms of offline and online risky behaviour, and to being sensation seekers. The group of youths who reported being bothered had more emotional problems. In relation to other European countries, Czech and Norwegian early adolescents reported the highest pornography exposure. |
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