Psychometric development of the Problematic Pornography Use Scale

Sexual Desire, Mood, Attachment Style, Impulsivity, and Self-Esteem as Predictive Factors for Addictive Cybersex (Preprint)

“…These results are congruent with those of other studies showing the implications of insecure attachment in excessive Internet use [17] and cybersex [31,37,66].…”

“…In addition, in agreement with other studies on addictive Internet gaming [35], some studies suggested that excessive cybersex is at least partly a coping behavior that aims to regulate negative emotions [18,36]. It was furthermore [37] shown that the ratios of problematic pornography use is elevated in individuals with emotional insecurities such as anxious or avoidant attachment and traumatic souvenirs of the past. Insecure attachment such as ambivalent and avoidant attachment style [17] and anxious attachment [31] are associated with general excessive Internet use [17], as well as with intensive online sex use [31].…”

How Has Internet Addiction Research Evolved Since the Advent of Internet Gaming Disorder? An Overview of Cyberaddictions from a Psychological Perspective

“…Cybersex was the second most researched cyberaddiction found in this analysis, together with social networking sites. Cybersex addiction has been associated mainly with excessive online pornographic consumption [18,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35], and risk factors have been associated mostly with the gratification hypothesis (i.e., reinforcement, learning mechanisms, and craving) [29]. Like online gaming addiction, cybersex addiction has been associated with personality and psychopathologic factors (e.g., neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and obsessional checking) [30] and cognitive processes (i.e., decision-making, working process memory) [31,32], although these are slightly different from those found in gaming addiction (in terms of the nature of this behavioral problem, such as cybersex and partners [33], or its relation to sexual abuse [34]).…”

“…Nevertheless, some of the papers were not categorized initially; for example, the BPsychometric development of the Problematic Pornography Use Scale^ [18] could be classified in two categories Bcybersexô r Bpsychometric studies.^In this case, the cybersex category was chosen because of the interest in highlighting the cyberaddictive spectrum researched since the definition of IGD to observe its heterogeneity.…”

The Development of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS)

“…Furthermore, hypersexuality, compulsive pornography use, and compulsive sexual behavior were assessed using several different scales (e.g., Coleman, Miner, Ohlerking, & Raymond, 2001;Noor, Rosser, & Erickson, 2014;Reid, Garos, & Carpenter, 2011;Womack, Hook, Ramos, Davis, & Penberthy;, and only three instruments focused on the narrower concept of problematic pornography use. The nine-item Cyber Pornography Use Inventory PROBLEMATIC PORNOGRAPHY CONSUMPTION (CPUI-9) was created on the basis of the CPUI-31, therefore the psychometric properties and the factor structure of the CPUI-9 are the only ones taken into consideration here (Wéry & Billieux, 2015;Grubbs et al, 2010Grubbs et al, , 2015Kor et al, 2014). The CPUI-9 (Grubbs et al, 2015) has three factors (compulsivity, effort, distress), and the Problematic Pornography Use Scale (PPUS; Kor et al, 2014) has four factors (distress and functional problems, excessive use, control difficulties, and use for escape/avoid negative emotions).…”