Social media has been a great influencing factor on the attitude of individuals consuming it on a regular basis as studies revealed. It offered lots of endless possibilities and risks to those individuals who use it. With its easy-access feature, it brought adolescents to a platform where various information is easily tapped. Appropriate or not, these social media contents have been affecting these adolescents’ behavior. Among the most controversial contents of social media are what we call as sexualized media. These are platforms the enable one to access sexually related contents such as images, videos, and even real-time video chatting. This research is aimed at providing the influence of sexualized media on sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior of selected Grade 12 students of General Mariano Alvarez Technical High School. The study employed random sampling and used descriptive-correlational research design to find answers to its specific questions. Since the study used students as its respondents, proper procedures were followed to conduct the study. A descriptive survey questionnaire was made to determine the sexualized media consumption, sexual behavior, and sexual risk behavior of the respondents. Results were tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance which have revealed that there is a significantly positive moderate correlation between sexualized media consumption and sexual behavior. Also, it was shown that there is a significantly positive moderate correlation between sexualized media consumption and sexual risk behavior and that there is a significantly positive moderate correlation between sexual behavior and sexual risk behavior.
Keywords: Sexualized Media Consumption, Sexual Behavior, Sexual Risk Behavior.
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