The purpose of this study is to search the actual condition of internet pornography contact and sexual violence among the Korean adolescents and inquire what the internet pornography effects on sexual violence. Also this study verifies the mediating e...
The purpose of this study is to search the actual condition of internet pornography contact and sexual violence among the Korean adolescents and inquire what the internet pornography effects on sexual violence. Also this study verifies the mediating effect of rape myth reception and the moderation effect of parent-children interaction.To perform this study, a research was done on 1145 adolescents from the third year in middles school to the second year in high school within Seoul and Kyung-gy province. Lastly, 1140 adolescents were select as the sample. Using SPSS/PC+ 12.0, descriptive analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Cross-tab analysis was done and regression analysis was adopted to verify the mediating and moderating effect. To verify the mediation model, the Aroian method was also used.The main result of this study is as follow.First, the actual state of the adolescents'' internet pornography contact turned out to be very serious. The result shows that most of the adolescents are exposed into internet pornography.Second, the status of committing sexual violence by the adolescents was also serious. Especially, not as high as the male students, but the sexual violence commitment rate came out high also within the female students.Third, the adolescents'' internet pornography contact turned out to have significant effect on sexual violence commitment level.Forth, the rape myth reception was verified as the partial mediator within the relationship between the adolescents'' internet pornography contact and sexual violence commitment.Fifth, the parent-children interaction didn''t have moderating effect within the relationship of the adolescents'' internet pornography contact and sexual violence commitment, but had moderating effect within the relationship of the rape myth reception and sexual violence commitment.From the results of this study, the practical implication to resolve the adolescents'' sexual violence commitment and internet pornography contact is suggested as follow.First, to reduce the adolescents'' sexual violence commitment, parent-children interaction improving programs should be developed and provided. Next, schools should have the obligation to carry on sexual education programs with the contents of correcting the false sexual cognizance the students have, such as the rape myth.Further on, there should be more efforts to reduce the adolescents'' internet pornography contact within the government, family, and school level. The government should advance the technique to block the internet pornography and should prepare legal and systematic foundation. Education programs on desirable internet using should be provided to the adolescents within the family and school.Lastly, there should be more following studies on the adolescents'' sexual violence commitment, finding out the factors which effect and can reduce it.