Sexually explicit media use and relationship satisfaction: a moderating role of emotional intimacy?

Veit, Maria; Štulhofer, Ariana; Hald, Gert Martin

doi:10.1080/14681994.2016.1193134

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“…A study assessing the moderation role of PPR showed that at higher levels of PPR, more self-focused talk was associated with higher sexual satisfaction, and at lower levels of PPR, more self-focused talk was associated with lower sexual satisfaction (Merwin and Rosen, 2020 ). Also, emotional intimacy was found to moderate the relationship between the use of Sexually Explicit Media (SEM) and relationship satisfaction in men's case, with a higher SEM significantly associated with lower relationship satisfaction among men reporting lower levels of emotional intimacy (Veit et al, 2017 ).…”

Section: The Moderation Role Of Self-disclosure and Perceived Partner Responsivenessmentioning

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The Role of Relational Entitlement, Self-Disclosure and Perceived Partner Responsiveness in Predicting Couple Satisfaction: A Daily-Diary Study

Candel

Turliuc

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Recent research has investigated how the sense of relational entitlement (SRE, the extent to which a person expects that his/her needs and wishes will be fulfilled by the romantic partner) diminishes couple satisfaction, but little is known about how SRE affects the daily quality of close, romantic relationships. Moreover, the evidence on how SRE interacts with other features of a satisfying relationship (such as the variables of the interpersonal process model of relationships—self-disclosure, perceived partner disclosure, and perceived partner responsiveness) is scarce. Using an electronic daily diary, we examined 99 couples (198 participants) for 7 days, with two daily measurements for each partner. We used a dyadic double intercept multilevel model, which simultaneously computes effects for men and women. We tested a model where one partner's daily couple satisfaction was predicted by their overall levels of SRE (excessive, restricted, and assertive) and by their daily and overall levels of self-disclosure, perceived partner self-disclosure, and perceived partner responsiveness. The model also included person-level interactions and cross-level interactions between the SRE types and variables of the interpersonal process model of relationships for each gender. The analysis indicated that person-level excessive SRE lowers couple satisfaction. Also, day and person-level perceived partner responsiveness and person-level self-disclosure are related to couple satisfaction, but the latter association is significant only for men. Finally, we found some significant person-level interactions that account for changes in couple satisfaction. For men, the links between couple satisfaction, excessive and restricted SRE were moderated by self-disclosure and perceived partner responsiveness, respectively, perceived partner self-disclosure and perceived partner responsiveness. For women, the associations between couple satisfaction, restricted and assertive SRE were moderated by self-disclosure, respectively, perceived partner self-disclosure. This study advances our understanding of the general implications of SRE in the dynamics of couple relationships. More specifically, it shows how SRE interacts with other couple-specific variables in shaping day-to-day couple satisfaction. The theoretical and clinical implications for couple therapy are discussed.

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Section: The Moderation Role Of Self-disclosure and Perceived Partner Responsivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Relational Entitlement, Self-Disclosure and Perceived Partner Responsiveness in Predicting Couple Satisfaction: A Daily-Diary Study

Candel

Turliuc

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Although a handful of studies using retrospective reports have shown that pornography use is unrelated to relationship satisfaction (Veit et al, 2016), or even positively related to partnered sexual desire, particularly for women (Willoughby & Leonhardt, 2020), most studies have found a negative association between pornography use and various aspects of romantic relationships, including lower relationship satisfaction, lower sexual desire, and lower interest in partnered sex (Perry, 2020; Willoughby et al, 2016; Wright et al, 2017). Even if the majority of pornography research relies on non-dyadic samples, findings among heterosexual couples suggest that men’s pornography use is associated with their female partner’s lower relationship satisfaction and sexual desire (Kohut et al, 2018; Maas et al, 2018; Poulsen et al, 2013; Willoughby & Leonhardt, 2020).…”

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Pornography use and romantic relationships: A dyadic daily diary study

Vaillancourt‐Morel

Rosen

Willoughby

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Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Pornography use is now considered a normative sexual activity, including for partnered individuals. Although there are documented positive and negative effects of pornography use on romantic relationships, studies to date suffer from key limitations, narrowing their clinical relevance. Most rely on vague recall measurement that may inadequately capture actual pornography use, and all are exclusively based on mixed-sex couples. This study used a 35-day dyadic daily diary design to examine the associations between an individual’s daily pornography use and their own and their partner’s relationship satisfaction, partnered sexual desire, and probability of partnered sexual activity in mixed-sex and same-sex couples ( N = 217 couples). For women, regardless of partner’s sex, using pornography was associated with their own and their partner’s higher sexual desire and with higher odds of partnered sexual activity. For men, regardless of partner’s sex, using pornography was associated with their partner’s lower sexual desire; for men coupled with women, with lower odds of partnered sexual activity, and for men coupled with men, with higher odds of partnered sexual activity. For all participants, pornography use was unrelated to relationship satisfaction. The current study demonstrated that an individual’s pornography use is associated with same-day couple’s sexual dynamics, with different associations according to users’ and their partners’ sex.

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“…A number of studies also suggest the possibility of no connection between pornography use and relational outcomes. "No effect" was the most common outcome reported in the bottom-up study asking participants to report on how pornography use influenced their relationship , and some research has failed to find a direct link between pornography use and relationship well-being when controlling for sociodemographic variables, psychosexual variables, and relationship characteristics (Veit, Štulhofer, & Hald, 2017). In one of the most notable examples, Balzarini, Dobson, Chin, and Campbell (2017) tried to replicate previous research showing that viewing attractive nude images was associated with lower reported love for partners among men.…”

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Untangling the Porn Web: Creating an Organizing Framework for Pornography Research Among Couples

Willoughby

Leonhardt

Augustus

2019

The Journal of Sex Research

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Sexually explicit media use and relationship satisfaction: a moderating role of emotional intimacy?

Cited by 28 publications

References 91 publications

The Role of Relational Entitlement, Self-Disclosure and Perceived Partner Responsiveness in Predicting Couple Satisfaction: A Daily-Diary Study

The Role of Relational Entitlement, Self-Disclosure and Perceived Partner Responsiveness in Predicting Couple Satisfaction: A Daily-Diary Study

Pornography use and romantic relationships: A dyadic daily diary study

Untangling the Porn Web: Creating an Organizing Framework for Pornography Research Among Couples

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