Adolescents' exposure to sexually explicit internet material and notions of women as sex objects: Assessing causality and underlying processes

Journal of Communication

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-433

  Peter, Jochen ^a   Valkenburg, Patti M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY; GENDER ROLE; INTERNET; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WOMENS STATUS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350409640     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01422.x     Document Type: Article

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