A Narrative Review of Motivations for Dating App Use and Associated Sexual Behaviors: Recommendations to Promote Safe Sex among Indian Dating App Users

Epton, Tracy and Lewis-Smith, Helena and Chittem, Mahati and George, Prathyasha (2021) A Narrative Review of Motivations for Dating App Use and Associated Sexual Behaviors: Recommendations to Promote Safe Sex among Indian Dating App Users. Media Watch, 12 (1). ISSN 0976-0911

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Abstract

India is witnessing a rapid increase in the use of dating apps such as Tinder, which provide heterosexual individuals with access to many potential sexual partners, thereby increasing their propensity to engage in risky sexual behaviours. Adopting a psychological perspective, this narrative review begins by drawing on existing literature on motivations and sexual behaviours relating to dating app use. Following this, the self-affirmation theory is posited to understand risky sexual behaviours within the context of dating app use. Finally, this review suggests promoting safe sex behaviours for Indian dating app users, self-affirmation interventions to promote body positivity and condom use, and disseminating health-promoting safe sex messages within the dating app.

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IITH Creators:	IITH Creators ORCiD Epton, Tracy UNSPECIFIED Chittem, Mahati UNSPECIFIED
Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Condom use; Dating applications; Health psychology; India; Self-affirmation; Sexual behaviours
Subjects:	Social sciences
Divisions:	Department of Liberal Arts
Depositing User:	. LibTrainee 2021
Date Deposited:	26 Jul 2021 06:15
Last Modified:	26 Jul 2021 06:15
URI:	http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/8523
Publisher URL:	http://doi.org/10.15655/mw/2021/v12i1/205462
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