Online sexuality and its relation to the adolescents' offline world

Autor	Anna Ševčíková
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií, Masarykova Univerzita
Year	2012
Research type	Ph.D. thesis
Annotation	The present thesis is about online sexuality among Czech internet users, with the special focus on adolescents. In the research consisting of six studies I focused on online sexuality in relation to offline sexual behavior, characteristics of users who have experience with online sexuality, and finally on the particularities of online sexuality in the Czech Republic. Generally, it has been found that sexually related online activities are positively interconnected with offline sexual experiences. Specifically, at the level of sexual behavior Czech adolescents do not use the internet for sexual purposes in a compensatory way. It seems the internet clearly expands opportunities to acquire sexually related experiences or sexual information, yet some of them might be unwanted.
Keywords	Internet; online sexuality; Czech adolescent internet users; sexually related online activities; offline sexual behavior; exposure to online sexual material; sexual socialization; co-constructing model; sexual scripts; cross-cultural comparison; ELSPAC; E
Research type	comparative research
Start date	1. 1. 2009
End date	1. 1. 2012
Obor	AN Psychology
Note	The dissertation is written in English
Email	info@fss.muni.cz
Availability	available in the NRVDM electronic library
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Research location	Fakulta sociálních studií, Masarykova Univerzita, Joštova 10, Brno 60200
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií, Masarykova Univerzita
Organisation web	http://www.is.muni.cz
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