Pornography and Relational Satisfaction: Exploring Potential Boundary Conditions

Wright, PJ (通讯作者),Indiana Univ, Media Sch, Commun Sci, 601 East Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA.
2022-11
Recent meta-analytic and other large-scale multi-sample studies have established that pornography use is generally associated with lower relational satisfaction. Nevertheless, much remains unknown about the potential boundary conditions of this relationship. Using data from a campus-representative probability sample of more than 750 graduate students in a committed romantic relationship, this exploratory study examined whether the association between more frequent pornography consumption and lower relational satisfaction was moderated by gender, sexual orientation, race, relational length, religious participation, and moral disapproval of pornography. The bivariate correlation between more frequent pornography use and lower relational satisfaction was small, but significant and replicative of prior meta-analytic results. Planned two-way interaction analysis indicated that this association was moderated by gender, with men, but not women, evidencing the negative association. None of the other potential moderators yielded significant two-way interactions. A supplementary three-way interaction analysis, however, suggested that the negative association between pornography consumption and relational satisfaction was primarily carried by White men. These results provide optimism for the replicability of previous findings on pornography and relational satisfaction and suggest that moderated models should incorporate race, in addition to gender, when predicting relational satisfaction from pornography use.
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卷号:51|期号:8|页码:3839-3846
ISSN:0004-0002|收录类别:SSCI
语种
英语
来源机构
Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
被引频次(WOS)
2
被引频次(其他)
2
180天使用计数
4
2013以来使用计数
4
EISSN
1573-2800
出版年
2022-11
DOI
10.1007/s10508-022-02406-4
学科领域
循证社会科学-综合
关键词
Pornography Relational satisfaction Moderation Gender Race ethnicity
WOS学科分类
Psychology, Clinical Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary