Peer Pressured to “Sext”- A New Study from Media Psychology

Are adolescents today “sexting” for popularity? Mobile phones are fully integrated into the social lives of today’s teenagers, and offer a sense of autonomy for those looking to hide from adult supervision. Concerns have risen over the use of the mobile phone as an instrument to download, produce, and distribute sexual imagery and a growing number of studies on adolescent mobile communication report that the consumption and distribution of pornographic imagery via mobile phones is common in adolescent peer groups. Though very few studies have asked “why” adolescents choose to participate in sexting or the use of mobile porn, those that have asked “why” continually point to the influence of peer group dynamics. In a new study featured in the “Sex and the Media” issue of Routledge’s Media Psychology, authors Mariek Vanden Abeele, Ph.D., Scott W Campbell, PhD., Steven Eggermont, PhD., and Keith Roe, PhD shed light on the connection between teen’s sexting and mobile porn use, and their social status in the article “Sexting, Mobile Porn Use and Peer Group Dynamics: Boys' and Girls' Self-Perceived Popularity, Need for Popularity, and Perceived Peer Pressure.”

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