TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of HEXACO personality traits in different kinds of sexting:A cross-cultural study in 10 countries
AU - Morelli, Mara
AU - Chirumbolo, Antonio
AU - Bianchi, Dora
AU - Baiocco, Roberto
AU - Cattelino, Elena
AU - Laghi, Fiorenzo
AU - Sorokowski, Piotr
AU - Misiak, Michal
AU - Dziekan, Martyna
AU - Hudson, Heather
AU - Marshall, Alexandra
AU - Nguyen, Thanh Truc T.
AU - Mark, Lauren
AU - Kopecky, Kamil
AU - Szotkowski, René
AU - Demirtaş, Ezgi Toplu
AU - Van Ouytsel, Joris
AU - Ponnet, Koen
AU - Walrave, Michel
AU - Zhu, Tingshao
AU - Chen, Ya
AU - Zhao, Nan
AU - Liu, Xiaoqian
AU - Voiskounsky, Alexander
AU - Bogacheva, Nataliya
AU - Ioannou, Maria
AU - Synnott, John
AU - Tzani-Pepelasi, Kalliopi
AU - Balakrishnan, Vimala
AU - Okumu, Moses
AU - Small, Eusebius
AU - Nikolova, Silviya Pavlova
AU - Drouin, Michelle
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by Sapienza University of Rome (Project title: The psychological underpinnings of sexting behaviors: A cross-cultural investigation; Grant number: RG11715C7C530999 ) and the work of Dr. Joris Van Ouytsel was supported by the Research Foundation – Flanders (Grant number: 12J8719N ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Sexting has been defined as sharing sexually suggestive content (i.e., sexts) via Internet or smartphone. To date, only a few studies investigated the role of personality traits in relation to sending or receiving sexts, and most of them used the Five Factor Model of Personality. No studies applied the theoretical model of HEXACO six personality traits (i.e., honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) when examining different types of sexting (i.e., sending own sexts, risky sexting, sharing sexts from someone else without his/her permission, sexting under pressure). Thus, this is the first study that, using a cross-cultural perspective, investigated HEXACO personality predictors of sexting behaviors considered as a multidimensional construct. A total of 5542 participants from 13 to 30 years old (Mage = 20.36; SDage = 3.67; 60.4% girls and 39.6% boys) from 10 different countries participated in the study. Participants completed the sexting behaviors questionnaire and the HEXACO personality inventory. Four hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to investigate which HEXACO personality traits predicted different sexting behaviors, controlling for country, biological sex, age, sexual identity status, and dating relationship status. Results showed that honesty-humility and conscientiousness were negatively predictive of all investigated sexting behaviors. Emotionality and extraversion were positively related, and agreeableness was negatively related to sending own sexts and risky sexting. Finally, openness to experience was negatively related to sharing sexts from someone else without his/her consent and sexting under pressure. Results have implications for the development and implementation of sexual education and prevention programs aimed towards adolescents and young adults.
AB - Sexting has been defined as sharing sexually suggestive content (i.e., sexts) via Internet or smartphone. To date, only a few studies investigated the role of personality traits in relation to sending or receiving sexts, and most of them used the Five Factor Model of Personality. No studies applied the theoretical model of HEXACO six personality traits (i.e., honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) when examining different types of sexting (i.e., sending own sexts, risky sexting, sharing sexts from someone else without his/her permission, sexting under pressure). Thus, this is the first study that, using a cross-cultural perspective, investigated HEXACO personality predictors of sexting behaviors considered as a multidimensional construct. A total of 5542 participants from 13 to 30 years old (Mage = 20.36; SDage = 3.67; 60.4% girls and 39.6% boys) from 10 different countries participated in the study. Participants completed the sexting behaviors questionnaire and the HEXACO personality inventory. Four hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to investigate which HEXACO personality traits predicted different sexting behaviors, controlling for country, biological sex, age, sexual identity status, and dating relationship status. Results showed that honesty-humility and conscientiousness were negatively predictive of all investigated sexting behaviors. Emotionality and extraversion were positively related, and agreeableness was negatively related to sending own sexts and risky sexting. Finally, openness to experience was negatively related to sharing sexts from someone else without his/her consent and sexting under pressure. Results have implications for the development and implementation of sexual education and prevention programs aimed towards adolescents and young adults.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Cross-cultural study
KW - Personality traits
KW - Sexting
KW - Young adulthood
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106502
DO - 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106502
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088753817
SN - 0747-5632
VL - 113
JO - Computers in Human Behavior
JF - Computers in Human Behavior
M1 - 106502
ER -