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Sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in Malaysia: The moderating role of gender and relationship status

Although the media has been negatively portraying sexting behaviour, yet it remains prevalent among people across countries. The recent lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic makes sexting behaviours an even more viable option for satisfying individuals' sexual desires. Local studies on sexting...

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Main Author: Goh, Yee Shan
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2023
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B Philosophy (General)
HM Sociology
HT Communities. Classes. Races
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spelling my-utar-eprints.62582024-04-04T14:06:44Z Sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in Malaysia: The moderating role of gender and relationship status Goh, Yee Shan B Philosophy (General) HM Sociology HT Communities. Classes. Races Although the media has been negatively portraying sexting behaviour, yet it remains prevalent among people across countries. The recent lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic makes sexting behaviours an even more viable option for satisfying individuals' sexual desires. Local studies on sexting are limited, but evidence depicted an increasing engagement in this behaviour. Despite the fact that sexting behaviour is regularly associated with negative consequences, the motivations that keep people sexting are unknown among Malaysian emerging adults. This study seek to identify the engagement level in sexting behaviour in Malaysia. It also seeks to examine the sexting motives, gender, and relationship status differences, as well as the moderating role of gender and relationship status between sexting motives on sexting behaviour. This crosssectional quantitative study recruited participants using the purposive sampling technique during the pandemic period from August to October 2020. A total of 252 emerging adults (Mage = 22.84; SD = 2.05), with 55.7% being females, participated in the study. The result depicted that 88.1% of participants ever sexted with someone. The independent sample t-test analysis showed that males and participants in-relationship were more likely to sext compared to females and singles. Hierarchical multiple regression depicted that intimacy, enhancement, and peer pressure significantly predicted sexting behaviour. Gender does not moderate the association between all motives and sexting II behaviour. Meanwhile, relationship status moderates the associations of selfaffirmation and peer pressure on sexting behaviour. Findings have shed new light and bridged the knowledge gap on sexting behaviour among Malaysian emerging adults that serve as an informative input for the future revision of sexual reproductive health education implementation. 2023-09 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6258/1/20AAM00739_DIS.pdf Goh, Yee Shan (2023) Sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in Malaysia: The moderating role of gender and relationship status. Master dissertation/thesis, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6258/
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topic B Philosophy (General)
HM Sociology
HT Communities. Classes. Races
spellingShingle B Philosophy (General)
HM Sociology
HT Communities. Classes. Races
Goh, Yee Shan
Sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in Malaysia: The moderating role of gender and relationship status
description Although the media has been negatively portraying sexting behaviour, yet it remains prevalent among people across countries. The recent lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic makes sexting behaviours an even more viable option for satisfying individuals' sexual desires. Local studies on sexting are limited, but evidence depicted an increasing engagement in this behaviour. Despite the fact that sexting behaviour is regularly associated with negative consequences, the motivations that keep people sexting are unknown among Malaysian emerging adults. This study seek to identify the engagement level in sexting behaviour in Malaysia. It also seeks to examine the sexting motives, gender, and relationship status differences, as well as the moderating role of gender and relationship status between sexting motives on sexting behaviour. This crosssectional quantitative study recruited participants using the purposive sampling technique during the pandemic period from August to October 2020. A total of 252 emerging adults (Mage = 22.84; SD = 2.05), with 55.7% being females, participated in the study. The result depicted that 88.1% of participants ever sexted with someone. The independent sample t-test analysis showed that males and participants in-relationship were more likely to sext compared to females and singles. Hierarchical multiple regression depicted that intimacy, enhancement, and peer pressure significantly predicted sexting behaviour. Gender does not moderate the association between all motives and sexting II behaviour. Meanwhile, relationship status moderates the associations of selfaffirmation and peer pressure on sexting behaviour. Findings have shed new light and bridged the knowledge gap on sexting behaviour among Malaysian emerging adults that serve as an informative input for the future revision of sexual reproductive health education implementation.
format Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
author Goh, Yee Shan
author_facet Goh, Yee Shan
author_sort Goh, Yee Shan
title Sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in Malaysia: The moderating role of gender and relationship status
title_short Sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in Malaysia: The moderating role of gender and relationship status
title_full Sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in Malaysia: The moderating role of gender and relationship status
title_fullStr Sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in Malaysia: The moderating role of gender and relationship status
title_full_unstemmed Sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in Malaysia: The moderating role of gender and relationship status
title_sort sexting motive on sexting behaviours among emerging adults in malaysia: the moderating role of gender and relationship status
publishDate 2023
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6258/1/20AAM00739_DIS.pdf
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