Mental Health
Chinese Undergraduate Students’ Relational Satisfaction, Problematic Pornography Consumption, and The Paraphilic Fantasies: A Quantitative Research.
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Abstract
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the relationships between relational satisfaction, problematic pornography consumption, and paraphilic fantasies among Chinese undergraduates, with a focus on the mediating role of relational satisfaction.
Methods: Analysis were conducted on a sample of 127 (N = 127; age range: 18 to 25; Mean = 21.5; Standard Deviation = 1.63). Data was collected by survey method and conveyed though WJX.CN, which contain The Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS), The Paraphilic Fantasy and Arousal Scale (PF-AS) and The Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS). Correlation, Multiple Linear Regression and Mediation Analysis were conducted by SPSS 29 and Process v4.3.
Results: In this study, correlation analysis demonstrated that problematic pornography consumption was negatively correlated with relational satisfaction (r = -.813, p < .001) and paraphilic fantasies (r = -.871, p < .001). But problematic pornography consumption was positively correlated with paraphilic fantasies (r = .881, p < .001). The multiple linear regression showed that relational satisfaction negatively predicted paraphilic fantasies (β = -.456, p < .001), and problematic pornography consumption positively predicted them (β = .510, p < .001). Lastly, mediation analysis revealed the mediate effect of relational satisfaction between problematic pornography consumption and paraphilic fantasies, there is a significant indirect effect (IE = .17), explaining 84.7% of the variance in paraphilic fantasies.
Conclusions: Higher relational satisfaction reduced problematic pornography consumption and paraphilic fantasies, which supporting the opinion that relationships could be the conceptual component in the treatment of paraphilia.
Relevance
This study found that higher problematic pornography consumption was associated with higher paraphilic fantasies (e.g., pedophilia, sadism, masochism, bestiality).
The study also found a negative correlation between relationship satisfaction and pornography consumption.
Citation
Yu, L., & Ayub, N. (2025). Chinese Undergraduate Students’ Relational Satisfaction, Problematic Pornography Consumption, and The Paraphilic Fantasies: A Quantitative Research. Journal of Sexual Health Psychology, 4(1), 8-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.61186/shp.2025.2044556.1033
