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Publication details [#51957]

Hetsroni, Amir. 2008. Dependency and Adolescents' Perceived Usefulness of Information on Sexuality: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Interpersonal Sources, Professional Sources and the Mass Media. Communication Reports 21 (1) : 14–32.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | crosscultural context | information processing | mass media | sex

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper uses media system dependency theory to explore Israeli Jewish and Arab adolescents' perceived usefulness of sex information. Results show no gender-ethnicity interaction and no clear-cut link between sexual experience and perceived information usefulness.