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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Endendijk, Joyce J.
• Deković, Maja
• Vossen, Helen
• van Baar, Anneloes L.
• Reitz, Ellen

Titel

Sexual Double Standards: Contributions of Sexual Socialization by Parents, Peers, and the Media

Ist Teil von

• Archives of sexual behavior, 2022-04, Vol.51 (3), p.1721-1740

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (Hetero)sexual double standards (SDS) entail that different sexual behaviors are appropriate for men and women. There is large variation in whether people endorse SDS in their expectations about the sexual behavior of women and men (i.e., SDS-norms). To explain these individual differences, we examined associations between SDS-norms of Dutch adolescents (aged 16–20 years, N  = 566) and what parents, peers, and the media teach adolescents about appropriate sexual behavior of boys and girls (i.e., SDS-socialization). Adolescents completed an online survey at school. Regarding SDS-socialization, more traditional SDS-norms conveyed by the media and peers, but not of parents, and less perceived sexual activity of female peers, were associated with more traditional SDS-norms. Only for boys, exposure to sexy girls/women on social media and sexual music videos of female artists were associated with more traditional SDS-norms. Thus, SDS-socialization by peers and the media and opposite gender models (for boys) are important in light of adolescents’ SDS-norms.