Traumatized Sexuality: Understanding and Predicting Profiles of Sexual Behaviors Using Childhood Abuse and Trauma Measures

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dc.contributor.authorGewirtz-Meydan, A.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-09T19:55:19Z
dc.date.available2023-01-09T19:55:19Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractIn the current study we sought to identify sexual behavior profiles and examine the levels of childhood abuse history and trauma measures in each profile. The study was conducted among a large non-clinical sample of men and women (n = 806). Latent profile analysis was employed to identify distinct profiles of sexual behaviors and then childhood abuse, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety, and motives for engaging in sex were assessed in each profile. Four distinct profiles of sexual behavior were identified: hyposexual individuals, hypersexual porn users, porn users, and within usual ranges (WURs). Hypersexual porn users had significantly more childhood trauma (emotional, physical, and sexual) than WURs, significantly greater PTSD symptom than WURs and hyposexual individuals, and significantly greater anxiety and depression as compared with all other groups. The hyposexual individuals had significantly lower scores on all motives for engaging in sex than did porn users or hypersexual porn users. Hypersexual porn users and porn users reported coping and peer-pressure as motives for engaging in sex more than did WURs or hyposexual individuals. Clinicians working with survivors of childhood abuse should consider directly targeting these different maladaptive sexual behaviors by addressing PTSD symptoms, affective disorders, and motives for engaging in sexen_US
dc.identifier.citationGewirtz-Meydan, A. (2022). Traumatized sexuality: understanding and predicting profiles of sexual behaviors using childhood abuse and trauma measures. Child maltreatment, 10775595221148425.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10775595221148425
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5676
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherChild Maltreatmenten_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectIsraelen_US
dc.subjecttraumatized sexen_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectPTSDen_US
dc.subjectmaladaptive sexual behaviorsen_US
dc.subjectlatent profile analysisen_US
dc.titleTraumatized Sexuality: Understanding and Predicting Profiles of Sexual Behaviors Using Childhood Abuse and Trauma Measuresen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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