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Technology and social media nowadays has become a common phenomenon in this 21st century among youth. Everybody have their own technology which is smartphone and social media has been developed more from time to time until arouse the bad consequences among youth. This study aims to identify the relationships between technology usage and social media exposure towards sexual behavior among youth where the university students as the main focus. This study also look up about the differences between gender male and female towards sexual behavior. This study applies quantitative methods that involved questionnaire distributions to respondents. A total of 250 students from The National University of Malaysia (UKM) had been recruited by using convenience sampling technique. The results of this study found there is a significant, positive relationship between social media exposure and sexual behavior and for technology usage there is no significant relationships towards sexual behavior. For gender differences there is no significant difference between male and female towards sexual behavior. The results showed sexual behavior has been developed because of social media exposure instead of technology usage. For gender differences showed that male and female have same sexual behavior.
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To Cite this Article: Asyraaf, A.-S., & Badayai, A. R. A. (2022). Relationships Between Technology, Social Media and Sexual Behavior among University Students. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(5), 180–191.
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