Female use of the internet for sexual partners: self-esteem, sexual sensation seeking, stress and coping style

Author

Anabel Patino

Graduation Date

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Program

Other

Program

Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University, Psychology: Counseling, 2012

Committee Chair Name

Gregg Gold

Committee Chair Affiliation

HSU Faculty or Staff

Keywords

Humboldt State University -- Theses -- Psychology, Internet use, Females, Sexual partners, Web use

Abstract

The following project was completed in order to assess the relationship between online use of the internet to find sexual partners and self-esteem, sexual sensation seeking, stress and coping style in a sample of 152 female participants who were at least 18 years of age. Participants were categorized into two groups based on their use of the internet to find sexual partners online. Independent sample T-tests were run in order to uncover the possible relationship between the aforementioned variables. These tests revealed that for the most part the females who had used the internet to find sexual partners did not differ from the females who had not except on the measure of sexual sensation seeking (t (27.309) = 2.52, p = .018, 95% CI [.602, 5.86]) and on the self-blame subscale of the Brief COPE measure (t (148) = 3.19, p = .002, 95% CI [.306, 1.30]).

https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/4x51hm441

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