Johanna M F Van Oosten
Biographic Data
| ID | 199663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna M F Van Oosten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna M F |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Oosten |
| SIGNATURE | VAN OOSTEN J M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3443-1306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Google family home. Smart speaker use in Dutch families and the impact of parents’ individual and contextual characteristics
Smart speakers are a growing phenomenon in families with young children. Yet, early scholarship suggests that the reality of welcoming a smart speaker in the family and ongoingly using it is rather complex – not only because of the non-uniformity of families who own a device, but also because smart speaker use in the family space is, in itself, multi-dimensional. To that end, this study looks beyond initial device ownership and acknowledges a tri…
What does the news say about Siri, Alexa, and co.? A topic model network analysis of Dutch news messages about virtual assistants between 2011 and 2022
News media can shape public perceptions of technology and meaningfully inform research on technology adoption. Yet, little is known about the news representations of a currently emerging technology: Virtual Assistants (VAs). By examining the Dutch news coverage (2011–2022; N = 2059) using the Analysis of Topic Model Networks, this study found that (1) news attention peaked in 2019 with a decline in the years thereafter (until 2022) and (2) discou…
Measuring Sexual Double Standards in Sitcoms: Development and Application of a Content Analysis Codebook
The sexual double standard (SDS) consists of stereotypical gendered expectations and evaluations that condemn female sexuality and approve of male sexuality. Entertainment media contribute to the maintenance of gendered norms by providing guidelines as to which sexual expressions are acceptable for whom. This study set out to construct a new codebook for quantitative content analysis to assess the presence of SDS in media content, with an applica…
Virtual assistants in the family home. Understanding parents’ motivations to use virtual assistants with their Child(dren)
Virtual assistants (VA) like Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant are becoming household names - especially for families with young children. Scientific inquiry studying this user population and their intention to use VAs at home, however, remains scarce. By bridging the Technology Acceptance Model, Uses and Gratifications theory, and the first proposition of the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model, this study disentangles (1) differen…
Predicting the use of visually oriented social media: The role of psychological well-being, body image concerns and sought appearance gratifications
The present study examined the antecedents of visually oriented social media use based on the Transactional Model of Social Media and Body Image Concerns. Specifically, we studied how self-esteem, depressive symptoms, body dissatisfaction, and appearance consciousness within the social media context are, via two social media gratifications (i.e., appearance related self-validation and social comparison), related to the use of visually oriented so…
Sexual Interaction in Digital Contexts: Opportunities and Risks for Sexual Health
Adolescent girls’ use of social media for challenging sexualization
Research on sexualized media content has largely neglected an important part of young people’s interactions with such content, namely whether and how young people are able to resist sexualization in the media and build resilience against its influence. This study is one of the first to investigate whether adolescent girls build such resilience by reading and sharing messages (e.g., videos, articles) on social media in which sexualization is criti…
Predicting the Willingness to Engage in Non-Consensual Forwarding of Sexts: The Role of Pornography and Instrumental Notions of Sex
Although non-consensual forwarding of sexts (NCFS) is an important type of online sexual harassment behavior, the predictors of this behavior are currently understudied. The present study aimed to fill this gap by investigating online pornography use as a predictor of adolescents’ and emerging adults’ willingness to engage in NCFS in different contexts (i.e., forwarding a sexually explicit picture of a dating partner, relationship partner, friend…
Sexuality Education in the Digital Era: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Predictors of Online Sexual Information Seeking Among Youth
This study aimed to identify demographic, intrinsic and extrinsic predictors of youth's online sexual information seeking. We used survey data from a large, representative sample of youth (12-24 years) in the Netherlands (N = 20,500). We focused on online sexual information seeking in general, and on two specific types of online sources: interactive user-generated content (UGC) and professional sexuality education content. Findings suggested that…
A study of the relationship between parental mediation and adolescents’ digital skills, online risks and online opportunities
Explaining the Relationship Between Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Casual Sex: A Two-Step Mediation Model
Gender roles on social networking sites: Investigating reciprocal relationships between Dutch adolescents’ hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity and sexy online self-presentations
Previous research has suggested that adolescents play out stereotypical gender roles in their self-presentations in social media. However, longitudinal research on the relationships between (sexy) online self-presentation and adolescents’ gender role orientation is lacking. The present study investigated whether endorsing a stereotypical gender role orientation (i.e., hypermasculinity for boys, hyperfemininity for girls) predisposes adolescents t…
The Relationship Between Online Pornography and the Sexual Objectification of Women: The Attenuating Role of Porn Literacy Education
Media literacy interventions partly aim at preventing undesirable media effects at a later point of time. However, longitudinal research on the interaction between media literacy education and media effects is lacking. In this longitudinal study among 1,947 13–25-year-olds, we started to address this lacuna by examining the potential of porn literacy education at schools to attenuate the longitudinal relationship between exposure to sexually expl…
Adolescents' Sexual Media Use and Willingness to Engage in Casual Sex: Differential Relations and Underlying Processes
The present study investigated the relationship between different types of sexual media use (i.e., sexually explicit internet material, sexually oriented reality TV and sexy self-presentations on social network sites) and adolescents’ willingness to engage in casual sex, as well as underlying social-cognitive processes of this relationship. Drawing on a longitudinal three-wave panel study among 1,467 adolescents (aged 13-17, 50% female), we found…
Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Adolescents’ Sexual Uncertainty: The Role of Disposition-Content Congruency
Previous research has suggested that adolescents' exposure to sexually explicit internet material (SEIM) may result in sexual uncertainty because the content of SEIM may conflict with what adolescents have learned about sex. However, research on which type of adolescent is most susceptible to the relation between SEIM use and sexual uncertainty is lacking. This study therefore investigated whether the relationship between SEIM use and sexual unce…
Exploring Associations Between Exposure to Sexy Online Self-Presentations and Adolescents’ Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
Women's Critical Responses to Sexually Explicit Material: The Role of Hyperfemininity and Processing Style
Previous research on women's responses to male-targeted sexually explicit material (SEM) suggests that women may be critical toward such content. However, women's critical responses to SEM have not been explained empirically. The present study had two goals: (1) to investigate whether women's critical responses to male-targeted SEM depend on individual differences in gender role orientation (i.e., hyperfemininity) and (2) to explain the effect of…
Adolescents' Sexual Media Use and Willingness to Engage in Casual Sex: Differential Relations and Underlying Processes
The present study investigated the relationship between different types of sexual media use (i.e., sexually explicit internet material, sexually oriented reality TV and sexy self-presentations on social network sites) and adolescents’ willingness to engage in casual sex, as well as underlying social-cognitive processes of this relationship. Drawing on a longitudinal three-wave panel study among 1,467 adolescents (aged 13-17, 50% female), we found…
Sexuality Education in the Digital Era: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Predictors of Online Sexual Information Seeking Among Youth
This study aimed to identify demographic, intrinsic and extrinsic predictors of youth's online sexual information seeking. We used survey data from a large, representative sample of youth (12-24 years) in the Netherlands (N = 20,500). We focused on online sexual information seeking in general, and on two specific types of online sources: interactive user-generated content (UGC) and professional sexuality education content. Findings suggested that…
Adolescent girls’ use of social media for challenging sexualization
Research on sexualized media content has largely neglected an important part of young people’s interactions with such content, namely whether and how young people are able to resist sexualization in the media and build resilience against its influence. This study is one of the first to investigate whether adolescent girls build such resilience by reading and sharing messages (e.g., videos, articles) on social media in which sexualization is criti…
Women's Critical Responses to Sexually Explicit Material: The Role of Hyperfemininity and Processing Style
Previous research on women's responses to male-targeted sexually explicit material (SEM) suggests that women may be critical toward such content. However, women's critical responses to SEM have not been explained empirically. The present study had two goals: (1) to investigate whether women's critical responses to male-targeted SEM depend on individual differences in gender role orientation (i.e., hyperfemininity) and (2) to explain the effect of…
Predicting the Willingness to Engage in Non-Consensual Forwarding of Sexts: The Role of Pornography and Instrumental Notions of Sex
Although non-consensual forwarding of sexts (NCFS) is an important type of online sexual harassment behavior, the predictors of this behavior are currently understudied. The present study aimed to fill this gap by investigating online pornography use as a predictor of adolescents’ and emerging adults’ willingness to engage in NCFS in different contexts (i.e., forwarding a sexually explicit picture of a dating partner, relationship partner, friend…
Explaining the Relationship Between Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Casual Sex: A Two-Step Mediation Model
Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Adolescents’ Sexual Uncertainty: The Role of Disposition-Content Congruency
Previous research has suggested that adolescents' exposure to sexually explicit internet material (SEIM) may result in sexual uncertainty because the content of SEIM may conflict with what adolescents have learned about sex. However, research on which type of adolescent is most susceptible to the relation between SEIM use and sexual uncertainty is lacking. This study therefore investigated whether the relationship between SEIM use and sexual unce…
Exploring Associations Between Exposure to Sexy Online Self-Presentations and Adolescents’ Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
Women's Critical Responses to Sexually Explicit Material: The Role of Hyperfemininity and Processing Style
Previous research on women's responses to male-targeted sexually explicit material (SEM) suggests that women may be critical toward such content. However, women's critical responses to SEM have not been explained empirically. The present study had two goals: (1) to investigate whether women's critical responses to male-targeted SEM depend on individual differences in gender role orientation (i.e., hyperfemininity) and (2) to explain the effect of…
Exploring Associations Between Exposure to Sexy Online Self-Presentations and Adolescents’ Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Adolescents’ Sexual Uncertainty: The Role of Disposition-Content Congruency
Previous research has suggested that adolescents' exposure to sexually explicit internet material (SEIM) may result in sexual uncertainty because the content of SEIM may conflict with what adolescents have learned about sex. However, research on which type of adolescent is most susceptible to the relation between SEIM use and sexual uncertainty is lacking. This study therefore investigated whether the relationship between SEIM use and sexual unce…
Gender roles on social networking sites: Investigating reciprocal relationships between Dutch adolescents’ hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity and sexy online self-presentations
Previous research has suggested that adolescents play out stereotypical gender roles in their self-presentations in social media. However, longitudinal research on the relationships between (sexy) online self-presentation and adolescents’ gender role orientation is lacking. The present study investigated whether endorsing a stereotypical gender role orientation (i.e., hypermasculinity for boys, hyperfemininity for girls) predisposes adolescents t…
The Relationship Between Online Pornography and the Sexual Objectification of Women: The Attenuating Role of Porn Literacy Education
Media literacy interventions partly aim at preventing undesirable media effects at a later point of time. However, longitudinal research on the interaction between media literacy education and media effects is lacking. In this longitudinal study among 1,947 13–25-year-olds, we started to address this lacuna by examining the potential of porn literacy education at schools to attenuate the longitudinal relationship between exposure to sexually expl…
Adolescents' Sexual Media Use and Willingness to Engage in Casual Sex: Differential Relations and Underlying Processes
The present study investigated the relationship between different types of sexual media use (i.e., sexually explicit internet material, sexually oriented reality TV and sexy self-presentations on social network sites) and adolescents’ willingness to engage in casual sex, as well as underlying social-cognitive processes of this relationship. Drawing on a longitudinal three-wave panel study among 1,467 adolescents (aged 13-17, 50% female), we found…
A study of the relationship between parental mediation and adolescents’ digital skills, online risks and online opportunities
Explaining the Relationship Between Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Casual Sex: A Two-Step Mediation Model
Sexuality Education in the Digital Era: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Predictors of Online Sexual Information Seeking Among Youth
This study aimed to identify demographic, intrinsic and extrinsic predictors of youth's online sexual information seeking. We used survey data from a large, representative sample of youth (12-24 years) in the Netherlands (N = 20,500). We focused on online sexual information seeking in general, and on two specific types of online sources: interactive user-generated content (UGC) and professional sexuality education content. Findings suggested that…
Predicting the Willingness to Engage in Non-Consensual Forwarding of Sexts: The Role of Pornography and Instrumental Notions of Sex
Although non-consensual forwarding of sexts (NCFS) is an important type of online sexual harassment behavior, the predictors of this behavior are currently understudied. The present study aimed to fill this gap by investigating online pornography use as a predictor of adolescents’ and emerging adults’ willingness to engage in NCFS in different contexts (i.e., forwarding a sexually explicit picture of a dating partner, relationship partner, friend…
Adolescent girls’ use of social media for challenging sexualization
Research on sexualized media content has largely neglected an important part of young people’s interactions with such content, namely whether and how young people are able to resist sexualization in the media and build resilience against its influence. This study is one of the first to investigate whether adolescent girls build such resilience by reading and sharing messages (e.g., videos, articles) on social media in which sexualization is criti…
Sexual Interaction in Digital Contexts: Opportunities and Risks for Sexual Health
Virtual assistants in the family home. Understanding parents’ motivations to use virtual assistants with their Child(dren)
Virtual assistants (VA) like Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant are becoming household names - especially for families with young children. Scientific inquiry studying this user population and their intention to use VAs at home, however, remains scarce. By bridging the Technology Acceptance Model, Uses and Gratifications theory, and the first proposition of the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effects Model, this study disentangles (1) differen…
Predicting the use of visually oriented social media: The role of psychological well-being, body image concerns and sought appearance gratifications
The present study examined the antecedents of visually oriented social media use based on the Transactional Model of Social Media and Body Image Concerns. Specifically, we studied how self-esteem, depressive symptoms, body dissatisfaction, and appearance consciousness within the social media context are, via two social media gratifications (i.e., appearance related self-validation and social comparison), related to the use of visually oriented so…
Measuring Sexual Double Standards in Sitcoms: Development and Application of a Content Analysis Codebook
The sexual double standard (SDS) consists of stereotypical gendered expectations and evaluations that condemn female sexuality and approve of male sexuality. Entertainment media contribute to the maintenance of gendered norms by providing guidelines as to which sexual expressions are acceptable for whom. This study set out to construct a new codebook for quantitative content analysis to assess the presence of SDS in media content, with an applica…
The Google family home. Smart speaker use in Dutch families and the impact of parents’ individual and contextual characteristics
Smart speakers are a growing phenomenon in families with young children. Yet, early scholarship suggests that the reality of welcoming a smart speaker in the family and ongoingly using it is rather complex – not only because of the non-uniformity of families who own a device, but also because smart speaker use in the family space is, in itself, multi-dimensional. To that end, this study looks beyond initial device ownership and acknowledges a tri…
What does the news say about Siri, Alexa, and co.? A topic model network analysis of Dutch news messages about virtual assistants between 2011 and 2022
News media can shape public perceptions of technology and meaningfully inform research on technology adoption. Yet, little is known about the news representations of a currently emerging technology: Virtual Assistants (VAs). By examining the Dutch news coverage (2011–2022; N = 2059) using the Analysis of Topic Model Networks, this study found that (1) news attention peaked in 2019 with a decline in the years thereafter (until 2022) and (2) discou…
Psychology (16 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (9 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (3 works)