Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, Psychological Well-Being, and Hypersexuality in Patients With Substance Use Disorder in Iran

Abstract

Background: Hypersexual disorder is described as multiple unsuccessful attempts to control or diminish the amount of time spent on engaging in sexual fantasies, urges, and behaviors in response to dysphoric mood states or stressful life events.

Hypersexual Behaviors and Personality Traits in Men with Substance Use Disorders in Iran

“…31,2,8,5 Also, studies show that some of the psychological features and structures, along with addiction, can play a role in accelerating and enhancing HD. 3 Personality traits are one of the variables that play a fundamental role in directing our behaviors, 15,32 and this is the first study to compare the FFM of personality in addicted people with and without HD. The results of this study showed that there was a significant difference between the 2 groups of people in the FFM of personality: on the one hand, addicted men with HD had significantly lower scores in terms of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience personality dimensions; on the other hand, they scored higher in the neuroticism dimension in comparison to addicted men without HD.…”

“…In general, these attributes make addicted people more likely to use conventional and persistent addictive behavioral patterns, such as addictive and compulsive sexual behaviors in daily life 17 and in aversive and stressful situations. 3…”

“…In general, these attributes make addicted people more likely to use conventional and persistent addictive behavioral patterns, such as addictive and compulsive sexual behaviors in daily life 17 and in aversive and stressful situations. 3 In explaining low and insignificant extraversion scores in HD addicted men, it can be argued that extraversion embraces emotional style and positive emotions, intimate interpersonal relationships, and high levels of interaction and social activity, 49 but its low scores are probably associated with a tendency toward negative emotions and impulsive states, which leads to excessive sexual activity. 50 One of the limitations of this research is its focus on only one gender (male).…”

“…By introducing such behaviors as behavioral addictions, these researches have provided the context for a better understanding of these behaviors as primary addictive processes. [1][2][3] Addictive and compulsive sexual behaviors are similar with substance use disorders (SUD) in clinical features and matching biological processes; also, high rates of comorbidity (40% to 64%) between the 2 disorders reveal the notion of sexual addiction more clearly. 4,5 Sexual addiction is defined and described in various terms, including sexual compulsivity, sexual impulsivity, and HD; as various studies have described HD as an addictive behavior, [6][7][8] the term is used in the present study.…”

Inteligencja w codziennym życiu

“…Podobnie jak w przypadku badań nad inteligencją ogólną liczba raportów na temat inteligencji emocjonalnej czy funkcjonowania emocjonalnego wśród pacjentów z CSBD jest niewielka. W badaniach na osobach uzależnionych od substancji trudności w regulacji emocji były związane z hiperseksualnością (Hashemi, Shalchi, Yaghoubi, 2018). Podobne wyniki uzyskano na wysoko aktywnych seksualnie homo-i biseksualnych mężczyznach (Pachankis, Rendina, Ventuneac, Grov, Parsons, 2014).…”