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Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues in a multitasking situation is related to symptoms of cybersex addiction
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Some individuals consume cybersex contents, such as pornographic material, in an addictive manner, which leads to severe negative consequences in private life or work. One mechanism leading to negative consequences may be reduced executive control over cognition and behavior tha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25786495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/JBA.4.2015.1.5 |
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author | SCHIEBENER, JOHANNES LAIER, CHRISTIAN BRAND, MATTHIAS |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Some individuals consume cybersex contents, such as pornographic material, in an addictive manner, which leads to severe negative consequences in private life or work. One mechanism leading to negative consequences may be reduced executive control over cognition and behavior that may be necessary to realize goal-oriented switching between cybersex use and other tasks and obligations of life. METHODS: To address this aspect, we investigated 104 male participants with an executive multitasking paradigm with two sets: One set consisted of pictures of persons, the other set consisted of pornographic pictures. In both sets the pictures had to be classified according to certain criteria. The explicit goal was to work on all classification tasks to equal amounts, by switching between the sets and classification tasks in a balanced manner. RESULTS: We found that less balanced performance in this multitasking paradigm was associated with a higher tendency towards cybersex addiction. Persons with this tendency often either overused or neglected working on the pornographic pictures. DISCUSSION: The results indicate that reduced executive control over multitasking performance, when being confronted with pornographic material, may contribute to dysfunctional behaviors and negative consequences resulting from cybersex addiction. However, individuals with tendencies towards cybersex addiction seem to have either an inclination to avoid or to approach the pornographic material, as discussed in motivational models of addiction. |
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spelling | pubmed-43948492015-04-16 Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues in a multitasking situation is related to symptoms of cybersex addiction SCHIEBENER, JOHANNES LAIER, CHRISTIAN BRAND, MATTHIAS J Behav Addict Full-Length Report BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Some individuals consume cybersex contents, such as pornographic material, in an addictive manner, which leads to severe negative consequences in private life or work. One mechanism leading to negative consequences may be reduced executive control over cognition and behavior that may be necessary to realize goal-oriented switching between cybersex use and other tasks and obligations of life. METHODS: To address this aspect, we investigated 104 male participants with an executive multitasking paradigm with two sets: One set consisted of pictures of persons, the other set consisted of pornographic pictures. In both sets the pictures had to be classified according to certain criteria. The explicit goal was to work on all classification tasks to equal amounts, by switching between the sets and classification tasks in a balanced manner. RESULTS: We found that less balanced performance in this multitasking paradigm was associated with a higher tendency towards cybersex addiction. Persons with this tendency often either overused or neglected working on the pornographic pictures. DISCUSSION: The results indicate that reduced executive control over multitasking performance, when being confronted with pornographic material, may contribute to dysfunctional behaviors and negative consequences resulting from cybersex addiction. However, individuals with tendencies towards cybersex addiction seem to have either an inclination to avoid or to approach the pornographic material, as discussed in motivational models of addiction. Akadémiai Kiadó 2015-03 2015-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4394849/ /pubmed/25786495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/JBA.4.2015.1.5 Text en Copyright © 2015, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Full-Length Report SCHIEBENER, JOHANNES LAIER, CHRISTIAN BRAND, MATTHIAS Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues in a multitasking situation is related to symptoms of cybersex addiction |
title | Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues
in a multitasking situation is related to symptoms of cybersex
addiction |
title_full | Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues
in a multitasking situation is related to symptoms of cybersex
addiction |
title_fullStr | Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues
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title_full_unstemmed | Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues
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title_short | Getting stuck with pornography? Overuse or neglect of cybersex cues
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title_sort | getting stuck with pornography? overuse or neglect of cybersex cues
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4394849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25786495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/JBA.4.2015.1.5 |
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