Ellen Van Gool
University of Antwerp
9 Papers
1 Citations
Ellen Van Gool is an academic researcher from University of Antwerp. The author has contributed to research in topics: Self-disclosure & Sensation seeking. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 9 publications.
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Papers
Sexting: adolescents’ perceptions of the applications used for, motives for, and consequences of sexting
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored adolescents' perceptions of applications used for sexting, the motives for engaging in sext, and the consequences they relate to sext behavior, and found that both female and male respondents reported that they did so mostly out of fear that otherwise they would lose their boyfriends.
Brief report: The association between adolescents' characteristics and engagement in sexting
TL;DR: Logistic regression analyses suggest that sexting is significantly linked with sensation seeking, experiential thinking styles and depression, while controlling for gender, age, family status and students' response to economic stress.
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Whether or not to engage in sexting
TL;DR: The more favourable young people evaluated the prototype of a person engaging in sexting and the higher they assessed their similarity with this prototype, the more they were willing to send sexted messages.
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Exploring the role of social networking sites within adolescent romantic relationships and dating experiences
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that social networking sites play an important role in relational information seeking and a romantic break-up often led to removing ex-partners from one's profile pages and adolescents most frequently observed the posting of emotional status updates by ex-Partners as a result of the relationship dissolution.
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To share or not to share? Adolescents' self-disclosure about peer relationships on Facebook
TL;DR: Adolescents' self-disclosure on social network sites is mostly the result of a rational, deliberated process, but can be influenced by a more emotional spontaneous response to a given online situation.
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