Associations between adolescents watching pornography and poor mental health in three Swedish surveys.
Adolescents
Mental health
Pornography
SCL-25
TSCC
Watching
Journal
European child & adolescent psychiatry
ISSN: 1435-165X
Titre abrégé: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9212296
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
Historique:
received:
27
09
2021
accepted:
09
04
2022
medline:
28
8
2023
pubmed:
8
5
2022
entrez:
7
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The aim of this study was to examine the association between watching pornography and poor mental health in three repeated cross-sectional surveys in Sweden (2004, 2009, 2014) among high school seniors (13,277 students) with an average age of 18 years. The same index questions concerning ever having watched pornography and the frequency of watching pornography during the last year were combined with three different measures of psychological health and background control variables in multiple logistic regression and forward stepwise logistic regression models. The repeated cross-sectional surveys did not find any consistent associations across years between poor mental health and ever having watched pornography or the frequency of watching pornography. Having watched deviant pornography (containing violence, children and/or animals) was associated with poor mental health among boys in two surveys but only in one survey among girls. Other characteristics, such as mother's unemployment (especially boys), parenting style (especially high controlling parents among boys) and experiences of sexual abuse (especially penetrating abuse among girls), were more consistently and strongly associated to poor mental health across the three surveys. This study stresses the importance of controlling for multiple background variables when studying the association between watching pornography and mental health, since the association might primarily be explained by underlying confounding variables.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35524827
doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-01992-x
pii: 10.1007/s00787-022-01992-x
pmc: PMC10460300
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1765-1780Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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