Role of personality characteristics and sexual orientation in the risk for sexual addiction among Israeli men: validation of a Hebrew sex addiction scale

Paz, G., Griffiths, M.D. ORCID: 0000-0001-8880-6524, Demetrovics, Z. and Szabo, A., 2021. Role of personality characteristics and sexual orientation in the risk for sexual addiction among Israeli men: validation of a Hebrew sex addiction scale. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 19, pp. 32-46. ISSN 1557-1874

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Abstract

Men having sex with men are known to exhibit heightened sexual activity. This raises the conjecture that different sexual orientations exhibit different levels of sex addiction risk, which is also affected by personality. The present study examined the prevalence of the sex addiction risk within the context of sexual orientation and personality in Israeli men while also validating the Hebrew Bergen-Yale Sex Addiction Scale (HBYSAS). Results based on 177 participants showed that the HBYSAS is appropriate for assessing the risk for sex addiction in Israeli men. Furthermore, results showed that sex addiction risk varied with individuals’ sexual orientation while being modestly associated with higher neuroticism and lower conscientiousness.

Item Type: Journal article
Publication Title: International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Creators: Paz, G., Griffiths, M.D., Demetrovics, Z. and Szabo, A.
Publisher: Springer
Date: February 2021
Volume: 19
ISSN: 1557-1874
Identifiers:
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10.1007/s11469-019-00109-xDOI
109Publisher Item Identifier
Rights: Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. © The Author(s) 2019.
Divisions: Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by: Jill Tomkinson
Date Added: 30 Jul 2019 12:42
Last Modified: 19 Feb 2021 15:58
URI: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/37160

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