ArticleFrontiers in psychology2015
Symptoms of cybersex addiction can be linked to both approaching and avoiding pornographic stimuli: results from an analog sample of regular cybersex users.
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- Deficits in loss-related feedback processing and risky decision-making among heterosexual males at risk for problematic pornography use.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
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- Dating App Use and Wellbeing: An Application-Based Pilot Study Employing Ecological Momentary Assessment and Objective Measures of Use.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The action dynamics of approach-avoidance conflict during decision-making.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Decision making and executive functions in problematic pornography use.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Two subtypes of compulsive sexual behavior disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry guidelines on the assessment and pharmacological treatment of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- Approach-Avoidance pattern of attentional bias in individuals with high tendencies toward problematic Internet pornography use.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- An empirical study of affective and cognitive functions in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2021Article
- Cognitive processes related to problematic pornography use (PPU): A systematic review of experimental studies.Addictive behaviors reports · 2021Article
- Decision-Making in Gambling Disorder, Problematic Pornography Use, and Binge-Eating Disorder: Similarities and Differences.Current behavioral neuroscience reports · 2020Article
- Inhibitory control and problematic Internet-pornography use - The important balancing role of the insula.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2020Article
- Facets of impulsivity and related aspects differentiate among recreational and unregulated use of Internet pornography.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2019Article
- Approach bias for erotic stimuli in heterosexual male college students who use pornography.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2019Article
- Online Porn Addiction: What We Know and What We Don't-A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Review
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Abstract
There is no consensus regarding the phenomenology, classification, and diagnostic criteria of cybersex addiction. Some approaches point toward similarities to substance dependencies for which approach/avoidance tendencies are crucial mechanisms. Several researchers have argued that within an addiction-related decision situation, individuals might either show tendencies to approach or avoid addiction-related stimuli. In the current study 123 heterosexual males completed an Approach-Avoidance-Task (AAT; Rinck and Becker, 2007) modified with pornographic pictures. During the AAT participants either had to push pornographic stimuli away or pull them toward themselves with a joystick. Sensitivity toward sexual excitation, problematic sexual behavior, and tendencies toward cybersex addiction were assessed with questionnaires. Results showed that individuals with tendencies toward cybersex addiction tended to either approach or avoid pornographic stimuli. Additionally, moderated regression analyses revealed that individuals with high sexual excitation and problematic sexual behavior who showed high approach/avoidance tendencies, reported higher symptoms of cybersex addiction. Analogous to substance dependencies, results suggest that both approach and avoidance tendencies might play a role in cybersex addiction. Moreover, an interaction with sensitivity toward sexual excitation and problematic sexual behavior could have an accumulating effect on the severity of subjective complaints in everyday life due to cybersex use. The findings provide further empirical evidence for similarities between cybersex addiction and substance dependencies. Such similarities could be retraced to a comparable neural processing of cybersex- and drug-related cues.
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