Associations among Text Messaging, Academic Performance, and Sexual Behaviors of Adolescents

Raymond C. W. Perry; Rebecca A. Braun; Michelle Cantu; Rebecca N. Dudovitz; Bhupendra Sheoran; Paul J. Chung

Journal of School Health Vol. 84, No. 1 (January 2014) pp. 33–39

Background: Text messaging is an increasingly common mode of communication, especially among adolescents, and frequency of texting may be a measure of one's sociability. This study examined how text messaging ("texting") frequency and ...