Consensual sexting among adolescents: Risk prevention through abstinence education or safer sexting?

Cyberpsychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Döring, Nicola ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bullying; Cell phone; Gender; Media education; Sexting; Sexually explicit user generated content

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897091800     PISSN: 18027962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5817/CP2014-1-9     Document Type: Article

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