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    Sensation seeking, social connectedness and sexting among young adults
    (UMT.Lahore, 2024) AYSHA MUNIR; BAKHTAWAR AZIZ
    The current study investigated the relationship between sensation seeking, social connectedness and sexting among young adults. Total 271 participants, 156 females (57.5%) and 115 males (42.4%) ranging from 18-28 years old (M = 21.03, SD = 1.94) were participated in the study from different areas of Pakistan completed the measures of self- generated personal information sheet, Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS) (Eachus, 2002), Social Connectedness Scale-Revised (Lee et al., 2001), and Sexting Behavior Scale (SBS) (Dir, 2012) online and offline. Purposive sampling strategy was opted. The study used correlational research design. The results disclose positive relationship between sensation- seeking, sexting and its subscales of received and post. Results also suggested significant positive relationship between experience-seeking, boredom-susceptibility and sexting and its subscales of received and post while positive relationship between thrill and adventure seeking and received subscale of sexting but non-significant relationship between social- connectedness and sexting. Furthermore, results represented sensation-seeking significantly predicted sexting while social-connectedness non-significantly predicted sexting. Results showed significant gender differences in sensation-seeking, sexting and its subscales. Overall, results proposed female scored more in sensation-seeking than males while males scored higher in sexting and its subscales than females. The study provided understanding of phenomenon of sexting in dynamics of specific Pakistani culture and gender differences in sexting behavior.