Properties of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-18) in community and subclinical samples in China and Hungary

Validity and reliability of the short version of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-6-A) in adolescents.

“…Based on correlational results, higher levels of PPU were associated with more frequent pornography use and masturbation, with moderate effect sizes, in line with prior studies among adults and adolescents (Bőthe et al, 2017;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, et al, 2018;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Demetrovics, et al, 2020;Bőthe et al, 2021;Kohut & Štulhofer, 2018). Moreover, higher levels of PPU were related to higher levels of sexual interest and arousal and sexual distress, with small effect sizes, corroborating prior findings among adults (Bőthe et al, 2021;Leonhardt et al, 2020;Wéry & Billieux, 2016). Higher levels of PPU were associated with younger age at first pornography use, with a small effect size, similarly to prior studies examining treatment seeking and non-treatment seeking adults (Gola et al, 2016;Lewczuk et al, 2017).…”

“…The BPS is a promising new scale to assess dysregulated pornography use, but its psychometric properties have not been examined as thoroughly as those of the PPCS. The PPCS demonstrated strong psychometric properties in terms of construct, convergent, divergent, and clinical validity and utility (Bőthe et al, 2017;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, et al, 2018Bőthe, Koós, et al, 2019;Bőthe, Lonza, Štulhofer, et al, 2020;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Bella, et al, 2020;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Demetrovics, et al, 2020;Bőthe et al, 2021;Tóth-Király et al, 2019). Moreover, gender, sexual orientation, treatment-seeking status, and culture-based measurement invariance have been established for the PPCS in previous studies (Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Demetrovics, et al, 2020;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2021), while no measurement invariance has been tested for the BPS yet, and only some preliminary results are available for the PPUS (Borgogna et al, 2018(Borgogna et al, , 2019.…”

“…The PPCS demonstrated strong psychometric properties in terms of construct, convergent, divergent, and clinical validity and utility (Bőthe et al, 2017;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, et al, 2018Bőthe, Koós, et al, 2019;Bőthe, Lonza, Štulhofer, et al, 2020;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Bella, et al, 2020;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Demetrovics, et al, 2020;Bőthe et al, 2021;Tóth-Király et al, 2019). Moreover, gender, sexual orientation, treatment-seeking status, and culture-based measurement invariance have been established for the PPCS in previous studies (Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Demetrovics, et al, 2020;Bőthe, Tóth-Király, et al, 2018;Chen et al, 2021), while no measurement invariance has been tested for the BPS yet, and only some preliminary results are available for the PPUS (Borgogna et al, 2018(Borgogna et al, , 2019. In addition, a large-scale mixed-method study including quantitative analyses, clinical interviews with patients reporting PPU, and therapists' clinical assessments, demonstrated that all PPU symptoms assessed by the PPCS were endorsed by both patients and therapists, and concluded that the PPCS is a more accurate, reliable, and valid measure than other PPU scales (Chen & Jiang, 2020).…”

“…Next, we conducted measurement invariance testing to examine whether the PPCS-6-A functions the same way in gender-and sexual orientation-based subgroups. Given PPU's theoretically relevant and empirically pre-established positive associations with pornography use and masturbation frequency (Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Demetrovics, et al, 2020;Kohut & Štulhofer, 2018), age at first pornography use (Gola et al, 2016;Lewczuk et al, 2017), sexual interest and arousal, and sexual distress (Bőthe et al, 2021;Leonhardt et al, 2020;Wéry & Billieux, 2016), we assessed these constructs as correlates to examine the convergent validity of PPCS-6-A. Lastly, similarly to prior work in adults and adolescent boys (Bőthe, Tóth-Király, et al, 2018;Štulhofer et al, 2020), latent profile analysis was conducted to identify adolescents potentially at risk of PPU.…”

“…Moreover, gender, sexual orientation, treatment-seeking status, and culture-based measurement invariance have been established for the PPCS in previous studies (Bőthe, Tóth-Király, Demetrovics, et al, 2020; Bőthe, Tóth-Király, et al, 2018; Chen et al, 2021), while no measurement invariance has been tested for the BPS yet, and only some preliminary results are available for the PPUS (Borgogna et al, 2018, 2019). In addition, a large-scale mixed-method study including quantitative analyses, clinical interviews with patients reporting PPU, and therapists’ clinical assessments, demonstrated that all PPU symptoms assessed by the PPCS were endorsed by both patients and therapists, and concluded that the PPCS is a more accurate, reliable, and valid measure than other PPU scales (Chen & Jiang, 2020).…”