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Why women avoid sexting: Mediating role of depression and guilt

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CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
卷 42, 期 17, 页码 14132-14146

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-02766-z

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sexting; women; depression; guilt; gymnophobia

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This study explores the challenging nature of sexting in today's digital world, especially for women. The research finds that social threat is the most significant factor influencing women's intentions to avoid sexting, with depression having twice the impact of guilt. The study suggests that the threat of being scammed should be effectively communicated in society to help women avoid sexting.
Sexting is a challenging cyberpsychological phenomenon in today's digital world. This challenge especially resonates among women, as they face severe pressures from social, psychological, and technological fronts, thus pulling them away from getting involved in the phenomenon. The current research initiative adopted the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and underlined the role of guilt and depression driven by the fear of social exclusion (as a social influence), gymnophobic attitude, and fear of being scammed (as a deficiency in IT self-efficacy) as exogenous factors to measure its position in mapping women's intentions to avoid sexting (in the hypothetical scenario). The study used convenience sampling to draw 472 (women) respondents from Pakistan with the mean age of 29 years old to measure the socio-psycho-techno-driven fears and their relationship with the mediating variables of depression and guilt. This information was used to map out the intentions to avoid sexting among women. The study found that social threat was the most significant construct, and depression was twice as influential as guilt in mapping women's intentions to avoid sexting. The study suggested that if women engaged in sexting, gymnophobic attitude and the social threat posed challenges for their psychological well-being. Moreover, the threat of being scammed as a factor needs to be more effectively communicated in society to map intentions to avoid its related challenges in sexting victimization.

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