Internet Pornography Use, Perceived Addiction, and Religious/Spiritual Struggles
Internet Pornography Use, Perceived Addiction, and Religious/Spiritual Struggles
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DOI：
10.1007/s10508-016-0772-9
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发表时间：
2017-08-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Lindberg, Matthew J.
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作者：
Grubbs, Joshua B.;Exline, Julie J.;Lindberg, Matthew J.
先前的研究表明，宗教信仰和道德态度往往与性功能有关。目前的工作试图研究另一种可能性：性的态度和行为是否与宗教和精神功能有关？更具体地说，色情使用和对互联网色情的感知成瘾是否可以预测宗教和精神斗争的经历？人们预计，对互联网色情的感知成瘾的感觉确实会预测这种斗争，无论是跨部门的还是随着时间的推移，但实际的色情使用不会。为了验证这些想法，我们进行了两项研究，分别使用了本科生样本（N = 1519）和美国成年互联网用户样本（N = 713）。对这两个样本的横断面分析发现，感知成瘾的因素与宗教和精神斗争的经历有关。此外，纵向分析超过1年的时间跨度与本科生的子集（N = 156）和成人网络用户的子集（N = 366）显示，感知成瘾的互联网色情预测独特的变化，随着时间的推移，即使基线水平的斗争和其他相关变量保持不变。总的来说，这些发现确定了对互联网色情的感知成瘾是宗教和精神斗争的可靠预测因素。
Prior work has demonstrated that religious beliefs and moral attitudes are often related to sexual functioning. The present work sought to examine another possibility: Do sexual attitudes and behaviors have a relationship with religious and spiritual functioning? More specifically, do pornography use and perceived addiction to Internet pornography predict the experience of religious and spiritual struggle? It was expected that feelings of perceived addiction to Internet pornography would indeed predict such struggles, both cross-sectionally and over time, but that actual pornography use would not. To test these ideas, two studies were conducted using a sample of undergraduate students (N = 1519) and a sample of adult Internet users in the U.S. (N = 713). Cross-sectional analyses in both samples found that elements of perceived addiction were related to the experience of religious and spiritual struggle. Additionally, longitudinal analyses over a 1-year time span with a subset of undergraduates (N = 156) and a subset of adult web users (N = 366) revealed that perceived addiction to Internet pornography predicted unique variance in struggle over time, even when baseline levels of struggle and other related variables were held constant. Collectively, these findings identify perceived addiction to Internet pornography as a reliable predictor of religious and spiritual struggle.