Efrati, Yaniv.
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy just-accepted (2018): 01-33.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2018.1452088
Abstract
Background: Adolescent compulsive sexual behavior (CSB), and its associations with other personality predispositions (attachment orientations, temperament), gender, religiosity, and psychopathological tendencies. Five alternative empirical models were examined, all based on current theory and research on CSB.
Methods: The sample include 311 high-school adolescents (184 boys, 127 girls) ranging in age from 16 to 18 (M = 16.94, SD = .65) and enrolled in the eleventh (43.4%) and twelfth (56.6%) grades completed self-report measures tapping CSB and the above-mentioned variables.
Results: One model was found to be compatible with the data, indicating that CSB is an independent disorder from other psychopathological tendencies and associated with religiosity, gender, temperament, and attachment orientations.
Conclusions: Findings have implications for understanding the meaning of adolescent CSB as a psychological disorder and treating it differently from other disorders.
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