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ArticleThe journal of sexual medicine2016

Understanding the Personality and Behavioral Mechanisms Defining Hypersexuality in Men Who Have Sex With Men.

Michael H Miner, Rebecca Swinburne Romine, Nancy Raymond, Erick Janssen, Angus MacDonald, Eli Coleman

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Article in The journal of sexual medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Michael H MinerDepartment of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Electronic address: miner001@umn.edu.
Rebecca Swinburne RomineThe Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
Nancy RaymondDepartment of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Erick JanssenInstitute for Family and Sexuality Studies, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium.
Angus MacDonaldDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Eli ColemanDepartment of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
University of Minnesota · USLifeSpan Medical Institute · USNXP (Belgium) · BE

Funding

Psychological and Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Sexual Compulsivity and HIV RisR01MH094229 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI MINER, MICHAEL H · 2011 to 2013
$1.1M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH094229
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionHypersexuality has been conceptualized as sexual addiction, compulsivity, and impulsivity, among others, in the absence of strong empirical data in support of any specific conceptualization.

aimTo investigate personality factors and behavioral mechanisms that are relevant to hypersexuality in men who have sex with men.

methodsA sample of 242 men who have sex with men was recruited from various sites in a moderate-size mid-western city. Participants were assigned to a hypersexuality group or a control group using an interview similar to the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Self-report inventories were administered that measured the broad personality constructs of positive emotionality, negative emotionality, and constraint and more narrow constructs related to sexual behavioral control, behavioral activation, behavioral inhibition, sexual excitation, sexual inhibition, impulsivity, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and sexual behavior.

main outcome measuresHierarchical logistic regression was used to determine the relation between these personality and behavioral variables and group membership.

resultsA hierarchical logistic regression controlling for age showed a significant positive relation between hypersexuality and negative emotionality and a negative relation with constraint. None of the behavioral mechanism variables entered this equation. However, a hierarchical multiple regression analysis predicting sexual behavioral control indicated that lack of such control was positively related to sexual excitation and sexual inhibition owing to the threat of performance failure and negatively related to sexual inhibition owing to the threat of performance consequences and general behavioral inhibition

conclusionHypersexuality was found to be related to two broad personality factors that are characterized by emotional reactivity, risk taking, and impulsivity. The associated lack of sexual behavior control is influenced by sexual excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms, but not by general behavioral activation and inhibitory mechanisms.

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PersonalityAdultCompulsive BehaviorEroticaHomosexuality, MaleHumansLogistic ModelsMaleMiddle AgedParaphilic DisordersPersonality DisordersPersonality InventoryRegression AnalysisSexual BehaviorSexual Dysfunctions, PsychologicalHypersexualityImpulsivitySexual AddictionSexual Compulsivity

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PMCPMC4996734
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