Ricerc@Sapienza

When Sexting Becomes a Kind of Violence? Sexting Motivations and Dating Violence among Young Adults With Internet, dating violence started to happen also in online context. Research showed that sexting, that is the exchange of sexual suggestive images via Internet, is related to perpetration and victimization of dating violence. This study investigated in a sample of young adults aged from 18 to 27 years which motivations for sexting could lead to victimization and perpetration of dating violence.

Selfies are usually defined as self-portrait photos shared on social networks. Recent studies investigated how personality traits, and specifically narcissism, can be associated to different kinds of selfies. The HEXACO model, a new theory on personality structure, investigates personality on six dimensions, among which there is the Honesty/Humility trait, found strongly and negatively associated to narcissism. Thus, this study aims to investigate how different kinds of selfies could be predicted by HEXACO personality traits, controlling for age, gender and sexual orientation.

Gambling has become a leading leisure activity in many developed and emerging countries, and its popularity continues to increase. Although research on gambling is extensive, several gaps remain, in particular as regards the identi?cation of the exogenous and endogenous factors that explain why some individuals develop a propensity to gamble. In this exploratory study, we seek to integrate the sociopsychological analysis of gambling behavior with the economic one.

Numerous health risk behaviours have been identified as an issue in early adulthood, especially among university students, a particularly high-risk category for sexual and reproductive health. The aim of this study is to examine the condom use and its determinants among young adult in Italy. The hypothesis is that individuals’ demographic characteristics (gender, faculty, to have a committed partner, to be resident) and the risk perception may play a role in condom use.

Varicocele is a common finding in men. Varicocele correction has been advocated for young patients with testicular hypotrophy, but there is a lack of morphofunctional follow-up data. We assessed whether percutaneous treatment of left varicocele is associated with testicular "catch-up growth" in the following 12 months by retrospectively reviewing data from an electronic database of 10 656 patients followed up in our clinic between 2006 and 2016.