Scripts of Sexual Desire and Danger in US and Dutch Teen Girl Magazines: A Cross-National Content Analysis

The aim of this comparative quantitative content analysis was to investigate how US and Dutch teen girl magazines cover sexual desire (i.e., sexual wanting, and pleasure) and sexual danger (i.e., sexual risk, and negative physical/health consequences of sex). Relying on the sexual scripts framework and Hofstede’s cultural dimension of masculinity/femininity, we examined (a) how the coverage varied for boys and girls, (b) how it differed between the United States and the Netherlands, and (c) how gender differences varied by country. The sample comprised 627 sex-related feature stories from all 2006–2008 issues of three US (i.e., Seventeen, CosmoGirl! United States edition, and Teen) and three Dutch teen girl magazines (i.e., Fancy, CosmoGirl! Netherlands edition, and Girlz!). Overall, sexual wanting occurred more frequently in the US magazines than in the Dutch magazines. In the US coverage, boys’ sexual wanting received more attention than girls’ sexual wanting, whereas in the Dutch coverage sexual wanting was depicted equally often for boys and girls. The depiction of sexual pleasure did not vary by gender in either country, but was generally more visible in the Dutch magazines than in the US magazines. Sexual risks and the negative consequences of sex were associated with girls more than with boys, and were primarily depicted in the US magazines rather than in the Dutch magazines

Lamenting Sexualization; Research, Rhetoric And The Story Of Young People's Sexualization In The UK Home Office Review

This article discusses ‘The Sexualisation of Young People’ review, authored by Dr Linda Papadopoulos in 2010 for the UK Home Office. The article examines the review as an academic piece of work, considers it in the context of debates about young people, violence and sexualization, and discusses the characteristics and significance of rhetorical accounts that operate as ‘laments’ about sexualization

Vinculação da gestante e apego materno fetal

Este trabalho verificou as relações existentes entre o tipo de vinculação da gestante, sintomas de ansiedade, depressão e nível de apego materno fetal. Participaram 136 gestantes entre 18 e 42 anos de idade, do 6º ao 9º mês de gestação com escolaridade mínima de 5ª série. Foi realizado um estudo quantitativo, transversal, correlacional. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: Ficha de Dados Sociodemográficos, Escala de Vinculação do Adulto (EVA), Escala de Apego Materno Fetal (MFAS), Inventário de Depressão de Beck (BDI) e Inventário de Ansiedade de Beck (BAI). A análise dos dados foi realizada por meio de estatística descritiva, teste exato de Fischer, simulações de Monte Carlo e Correlação de Pearson. Os resultados indicaram que existe associação significativa entre o tipo de vinculação da gestante e o apego materno fetal, e sintomas depressivos. As gestantes que apresentaram uma vinculação segura evidenciaram apego materno fetal alto e sintomas depressivos e ansiosos mínimos