Snooping and Sexting: Digital Media as a Context for Dating Aggression and Abuse Among College Students

Lauren A. Reed; Richard M. Tolman; L. Monique Ward

doi:10.1177/1077801216630143

Snooping and Sexting: Digital Media as a Context for Dating Aggression and Abuse Among College Students

Lauren A. Reed, Richard M. Tolman, L. Monique Ward

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Abstract

Digital dating abuse (DDA) is a pattern of behaviors that control, pressure, or threaten a dating partner using a cell phone or the Internet. A survey of 365 college students was conducted, finding that digital monitoring behaviors were especially common. There were no gender differences in number of DDA behaviors experienced, but women reported more negative hypothetical reactions to sexual messaging than men. DDA was associated with measures of physical, sexual, and psychological dating violence. Results suggest that digital media are a context for potentially harmful dating behaviors, and the experience of DDA may differ by gender for sexual behaviors.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1556-1576
Number of pages	21
Journal	Violence Against Women
Volume	22
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801216630143
State	Published - Nov 1 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

cyber dating abuse
dating violence
new media

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Gender Studies
Sociology and Political Science
Law

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