I ran into a study that investigated the relationship between sexting and power. It found that two-thirds of the group sexted. The frequency of doing this with those in ages up to 26 was higher as seen below:
- When considering only teens, 13-19 year olds, 65.5% sexted.
- When considering only young adults, 20-26 year olds, 73.5% sexted.
When looking at the group as a whole (ages 13-72) "sexters did have a significantly higher power score as compared to non-sexters. Yet, when observing teens there was no difference in the power scores between sexters and non-sexters. This means that sexting may serve different purposes for people aged 26 and younger vs. those over age 26."
The study also highlighted some interesting statistics that were not mentioned in the previous statistics that I had mentioned:
I don't understand what the relationship is to power? What kind of power? Or is tht just the name of the score...? Maybe I just couldn't find the hyperlink to the study.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, their findings are pretty interesting! I'm not so sure that I like that there were significantly more women involved in the statistics than men. How can you say that your findings are accurate when there were over 200 females surveyed and under 100 males? I wonder if it was the same for the ethnic comparison. Also, I would like to know if they kept the age range consistent for the findings. If the population for caucasians was older, it's entirely possible that their statistics for sexting would be lower. And if the latinos were all young adults, their chances of sexting are much higher. The same thing could be said for when people started sexting graph. Text messaging hasn't been terribly standard for very long. If you are surveying a bunch of 20 somethings, then yea, they would have started sexting around 18. If you are surveying 30 somethings it could be mid to late 20s. So again, I think at face value the stats appear to show "significant" findings, but I think more consideration of their participants should be taken.
I agree with you on the 'sketchyness' of these findings. I do not trust them whole hardily myself as there are only three hundred something who participated in the study.
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