What are you sexting? Parental practices, sexting attitudes and behaviors among Italian adolescents

Table 1 Cronbach’s alphas, Independent Sample T-Test results comparing male and female adolescents for adolescent risk perception of sexting, parental practices regarding adolescent on-line life, parental monitoring and sexting behaviors

			Males		Females
		Cronbach’s alpha	M	SD	M	SD	t test
Negative attitude towards Sexting	Adolescent Risk Perception of Sexting	.82	3.74	0.95	3.91	0.92	−2.065^*
Parental practices regarding adolescent on-line life	Parental Active Mediation	.76	1.96	0.84	2.22	1.05	−3.100^**
	Frequency of Communication	.73	1.97	0.83	2.29	0.93	−4.140^***
	Quality of Communnication	.81	3.02	1.08	3.31	1.00	−3.149^**
	Rules on Time	.82	2.12	0.85	1.98	0.80	1.836
	Rules on Contents	.83	2.36	1.13	2.63	1.18	−2.753^**
Parental Monitoring	Parental Knowledge	.75	3.53	0.59	3.77	0.57	−4.639^***
	Adolescent Disclosure	.78	3.08	0.82	3.50	0.83	−5.812^***
	Parental Control	.83	3.35	0.98	3.67	0.91	−3.848^***
Sexting Behaviors	Sending Textual Sexts	/	1.74	1.05	1.73	1.01	.094
Sexting Behaviors	Sending Multimedia Sexts	/	1.27	0.63	1.47	0.83	−.2.947^**