RETRACTED ARTICLE: Sexting during social isolation: Predicting sexting-related privacy management during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vol.15,No.3(2021)

Abstract

RETRACTION NOTICE

The authors requested to retract this paper. The retraction does by no means invalidate the findings of the study. The first author has integrated items on sexting-related privacy management into the survey. The source of these original items had been disclosed and cited in the paper. The original items were publicly available online at the time of paper submission and paper publication. However, permission to use those items was not granted, also not after publication. Therefore, the paper is retracted.

Retraction date: January 26, 2023


Keywords:
Sexting; privacy management; sexual privacy; COVID-19; social isolation; Communication Privacy Management theory
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