Getting wired: Exploiting the internet for the collection of valid sexuality data

By Brian S. Mustanski. 2001

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Beyond global sociosexual orientations: a more differentiated look at sociosexuality and its effects on courtship and romantic relationships. (2008, background): “Despite former preconceptions, evidence is accumulating that online studies can provide valid psychological data (Gosling, Vazire, Srivastava, & John, 2004), including data for sex research (Mustanski, 2001; Penke et al., 2006).”
Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Notions of Women as Sex Objects: Assessing Causality and Underlying Processes (2009, background): “Online surveys or, more generally, computer-mediated surveys are superior to other modes of interviewing when sensitive issues are studied (e.g., Mustanski, 2001).”
Voices From Beyond: A Thematic Content Analysis of Transgender Employees’ Workplace Experiences (2014, background): “Even if such persons are not " out " broadly, they may feel comfortable being " out " online because the Internet provides a shield of anonymity; thus, the Internet is a viable resource for recruiting these underrepresented individuals (Mustanski , 2001).”
Sexual media use and relational satisfaction in heterosexual couples (2011, background): “Fortunately, research has shown that multiple submissions by the same individual are extremely rare occurrences in online research (Mustanski, 2001).”
Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Online Material and Recreational Attitudes Toward Sex. (2006, methodology): “We took the following measures to improve the confidentiality, anonymity, and privacy of the response process (Mustanski, 2001).”
Online Communication and Adolescent Well-Being: Testing the Stimulation Versus the Displacement Hypothesis (2007, methodology): “We took the following measures to improve the confidentiality, anonymity, and privacy of the response process (Mustanski, 2001): On the introduction screen of the online questionnaire, we emphasized that the answers would be analyzed only by us, the principal investigators.”
Unwanted Online Sexual Solicitation and Risky Sexual Online Behavior across the Lifespan (2010, background): “Previous research has acknowledged that online surveys are especially useful when sensitive issues like sexuality are investigated (Mustanski, 2001; Peter & Valkenburg, 2006, 2009).”
Tops, bottoms and versatiles (2008, methodology): “Mustanski (2001) notes that internal validity is potentially jeopardized if participants are fatigued, under the influence of drugs or alcohol or otherwise distracted.”
Adolescents' Exposure to Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Sexual Preoccupancy: A Three-Wave Panel Study (2008, methodology): “We took the following measures to improve the confidentiality and privacy of the answering process (Mustanski, 2001).”
Adolescents’ Exposure to Sexually Explicit Material on the Internet (2006, methodology): “As a consequence, our measure of exposure to sexually explicit material online may be endangered by response bias, which describes respondents’ tendency to not report (sexual) activities when, in fact, they performed them (e.g., Catania, Gibson, Chitwood, & Coates, 1990; Mustanski, 2001).”
A review of the evidence on the effects of intimate partner violence on men. (2011, background): “This methodology also reduces potential demand characteristics and interviewer bias (Mustanski, 2001).”
Adolescents’ Exposure to a Sexualized Media Environment and Their Notions of Women as Sex Objects (2007, methodology): “For the study of sensitive issues, on-line surveys or, more generally, computer-mediated surveys have generally proven superior to other modes of interviewing (e.g., Mustanski, 2001).”
The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding (2011, background): “And the anonymity and accessibility of the Internet make it a particularly good medium for conducting sexuality research among otherwise underrepresented populations (Mustanski, 2001).”
Characteristics and Behaviors of Sexual Compulsives Who Use the Internet for Sexual Purposes (2006, background): “Today we know that the Internet is a place more or less integrated with everyday life of which sexuality is a part for most people ( Mustanski, 2001 ).”
Content Analysis of Literature About LGB People of Color: 1998-2007 (2010, background): “For instance, despite the noted utility of Internet recruitment with LGB and difficult to sample populations (Mustanski, 2001; Riggle, Rostosky, & Reedy, 2005), only about 10% of empirical studies in this analysis used the Internet for recruitment, and only about 6% used it for data collection.”