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- Title
Dirty habits? Online pornography use, personality, obsessionality, and compulsivity.
- Authors
Egan, Vincent; Parmar, Reena
- Abstract
Internet pornography use can be compulsive, but evaluation of pathology underlying this is difficult to assess. The present study aimed to distinguish individual differences in personality and psychopathology that predict pornography consumption in an individual, and whether this reflected more general compulsive processes, assessing 226 male participants. Neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and obsessional checking all significantly correlated with a latent measure of compulsive behavior upon which use of Internet pornography use also loaded. The authors suggest the greater use of pornography on the Internet may reflect a general vulnerability to compulsive problems related to basic disposition, and that problems associated with this behavior can be managed with generic clinical approaches to obsessional and compulsive disorders.
- Publication
Journal of sex & marital therapy, 2013, Vol 39, Issue 5, p394
- ISSN
1521-0715
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/0092623X.2012.710182