TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - The role of HEXACO personality traits in different kinds of sexting: a cross-cultural study in 10 countries
JO  - Computers in human behavior
A1  - Morelli, Mara
A1  - Chirumbolo, Antonio
A1  - Bianchi, Dora
A1  - Baiocco, Roberto
A1  - Cattelino, Elena
A1  - Laghi, Fiorenzo
A1  - Sorokowski, Piotr
A1  - Misiak, Michal
A1  - Dziekan, Martyna
A1  - Hudson, Heather
A1  - Marshall, Alexandra
A1  - Nguyen, Thanh Truc T.
A1  - Mark, Lauren
A1  - Kopecky, Kamil
A1  - Szotkowski, René
A1  - Demirtaş, Ezgi Toplu
A1  - Van Ouytsel, Joris
A1  - Ponnet, Koen
A1  - Walrave, Michel
A1  - Zhu, Tingshao
A1  - Chen, Ya
A1  - Zhao, Nan
A1  - Liu, Xiaoqian
A1  - Voiskounsky, Alexander
A1  - Bogacheva, Nataliya
A1  - Ioannou, Maria
A1  - Synnott, John
A1  - Tzani-Pepelasi, Kalliopi
A1  - Balakrishnan, Vimala
A1  - Okumu, Moses
A1  - Small, Eusebius
A1  - Nikolova, Silviya Pavlova
A1  - Drouin, Michelle
SP  - e106502
EP  - e106502
VL  - 113
IS  - 
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. <br><br>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. <br><br>RESULTS have implications for the development and implementation of sexual education and prevention programs aimed towards adolescents and young adults.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0747-5632
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106502
ID  - ref1
ER  -