TITLE:
The Impact of Television on Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors among Teenagers
AUTHORS:
Islam-Isaac Borincaj-Cruss
KEYWORDS:
TV, Teenagers, Sexual Attitudes, Behavior, Experience, Self-Satisfaction, Parents, Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.6,
May
7,
2015
ABSTRACT: Sexual content on television has been shown
to have significant impacts on sexual attitudes and behaviours of people,
especially among teenagers. Consequently, numerous studies have been conducted
over the last decade to examine the connection among these areas, among other
goals. Also, it is an attempt to analyze the connection between sexual
attitudes and behaviours of teens and sexual content on television, as well as
the dissatisfaction created, as a result of the high levels of these contents.
80 students were included in this study, conveniently selected from three
schools in the city of Klina. The hypothesis is that portrayals of sex on
television lead adolescents to sexual relationships. In addition, high levels
of sexual content push teens to dissatisfaction with their sexual experiences.
From the obtained results, it is concluded that, although TV provides
consid-erable levels of sexual content, it does not encourage teenagers to
early sexual intercourse, but if TV shows such content in high levels, then
teenagers can be disappointed with their experience and have health as well as
social problems.