Islamic lifestyle with a focus on health

Islamic lifestyle with a focus on health

Differential Prediction Addiction to Pornography: Based on the Religiousness and Moral Incongruence

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 M.A student, Department of Counseling, Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor, Counseling Department, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.
3 PhD student, Counseling Department, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Purpose: The spread of technology has caused new issues and problems in the current time, one of which is the increasing access of sexual content to people in society, including pornography. The aim of this study was to obtain a differential prediction of pornography addiction based on the variables of religiousness and moral incompatibility of men in Tehran.
Materials and Methods: The study was descriptive and correlational, and the study population included 18 years or older men in Tehran in 2020-2021. The samples were 200 individuals selected by voluntary sampling method. In order to collect data, the scales of problematic consumption of pornography, empirical religiousness of Muslims, and moral inconsistency with pornography were used. For data analysis, discriminant analysis method and SPSS were used.
Finding: The results showed that religiousness and moral incompatibility can predict group membership of boys and men with pornography addiction and without pornography addiction (P <0.01).
Conclusion: The less religiousness and moral incompatibility become, the more use of erotic content, including pornography, will increase. As a result, these two variables have an excellent ability to predict pornography addiction.
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