University female students’ cybersex behaviours: Correlational and regional study

Abstract

Sexuality is a taboo topic for Indonesian families. Because sexual behavior is heavily influenced by cultural and customary norms, sexual orientation, and most importantly religion. Indonesians embrace Islam by the end of 2022 or 87.02% of the population in the country. Students are a group that uses and is connected to the internet every day, making all individual activities easier and accessing information faster. But behind the benefits, of course, there are also negative impacts from those who abuse the internet by sharing pornographic sites. Several social media found lots of pictures, videos, stories, with pornographic elements that spread freely without any protection. The activity of accessing, distributing and providing pornographic content is called cybersex. Cybersex is not a new phenomenon in Indonesia but it is increasing due to the pandemic and has had many negative impacts on the younger generation. One of the things that can be done to avoid cybersex is to increase self-control. The study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between self-control and cybersex behavior in female students in one of normal in Indonesia. Respondents in this study were female students in one of normal city university of Indonesia, as many as 350 subjects aged 18 to 24 years and were not married. This study uses a quantitative method with data collection techniques using a questionnaire through the Google form. The results of the data analysis show that there is a negative relationship between self-control and cybersex behavior. This can be seen from the results of the hypothesis test using Spearman rho with a result of 0.00 and a correlation value between variables of -0.385, which means that the higher the self-control, the lower the cybersex behavior. Cybersex is a topic of controversy because it relates to how physical and mental health conditions result from the negative impacts it causes. Recommended that future researchers use qualitative or experimental research methods to obtain more in-depth research results and it is not recommended to use quantitative research methods because the scale used will cause the subject to fill in a scale that does not correspond to his condition.

Keywords

• Cybersex
• Female students
• Self-control
• Correlational study
• Regional study

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