Longitudinal influence of COVID-19-related stress on sexual compulsivity symptoms in Chinese undergraduates

Deng, Jing; Li, Tsingan; Wang, Jiali; Teng, Limei

doi:10.1186/s12888-021-03369-x

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“…As expected, the current results indicate an association between psychological distress and SC during the pandemicrelated contact restrictions. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, our findings are comparable to the findings of Deng et al (2021), where psychological distress predicted sexual compulsivity. During the initial contact restrictions, men and women reported higher SC, compared to before the restrictions.…”

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“…There is initial evidence that pandemic-related stress might specifically affect SC. In a study of university students, Deng, Li, Wang, and Teng (2021) examined sexual compulsivity in relation to COVID-19 related stress. At the first point in time (February 2020), COVID-19 related stress was correlated positively with psychological distress (depression and anxiety), but correlated negatively with symptoms of sexual compulsivity.…”

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Gender differences in the association of psychological distress and sexual compulsivity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic had numerous consequences for general, mental and sexual health. As gender differences in sexual compulsivity (SC) have been reported in the past and SC has been connected to adverse events and psychological distress, the current study aims at investigating associations between these factors in the context of contact restrictions in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Methods We collected data for five time points in four retrospective measurement points in an online convenience sample (n T0 = 399, n T4 = 77). We investigated the influence of gender, several pandemic-related psychosocial circumstances, sensation seeking (Brief Sensation Seeking Scale), and psychological distress (Patient-Health-Questionnaire-4) on the change of SC (measured with an adapted version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale) between T0 and T1 (n = 292) in a linear regression analysis. Additionally, the course of SC over the time of the pandemic was explored with a linear mixed model. Results Male gender was associated with higher SC compared to female gender over all measurement points. An older age, being in a relationship, having a place to retreat was associated with a change to lower SC during the first time of the pandemic. Psychological distress was associated with SC in men, but not in women. Men, who reported an increase of psychological distress were also more likely to report an increase of SC. Discussion The results demonstrate that psychological distress seems to correlate with SC differently for men and women. This could be due to different excitatory and inhibitory influences on men and women during the pandemic. Furthermore, the results demonstrate the impact of pandemic related psychosocial circumstances in the times of contact restrictions.

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Gender differences in the association of psychological distress and sexual compulsivity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

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“…Zhu et al ( 24 ) studied the mental health and emotion regulation experience of Chinese nursing undergraduates during covid-19, which was helpful for direct psychological intervention during the pandemic. Deng et al ( 25 ) showed that the greater the COVID-19 related stress, the higher the sexual compulsivity, and the longer the duration of undergraduates' anxiety. Rahimi and Vallerand ( 26 ) studied the role of academic enthusiasm and emotion in procrastination.…”

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Intelligent Recognition and Analysis of Negative Emotions of Undergraduates Under COVID-19

Zhang

2022

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BackgroundThe outbreak and spread of COVID-19 has brought a tremendous impact on undergraduates' study and life, and also caused anxiety, depression, fear and loneliness among undergraduates. If these individual negative emotions are not timely guided and treated, it is easy to cause the amplification of social negative emotions, resulting in individual and collective irrational behavior, and ultimately destroy social stability and trust foundation. Therefore, how to strengthen the analysis and guidance of negative emotions of undergraduates has become an important issue to be urgently solved in the training of undergraduates.MethodThis paper presents a weight and structure double-determination method. Based on this method, a Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNN) classifier is constructed for recognizing negative emotions of undergraduates. After classifying the input psychological crisis intervention scale samples by the RBFNN classifier, recognition of negative emotions for undergraduates are divided into normal, mild depression, moderate depression and severe depression.ExperimentsAfterwards, we analyze negative emotions of undergraduates and give some psychological adjustment strategies. In addition, the experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method has a good performance in terms of classification accuracy, classification time and recognition rate of negative emotions among undergraduates.

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“…However, longitudinal studies from Canada and Hungary have found that CSB symptoms did not change (Bőthe et al, 2022 ) or increased very slightly (Koós et al, 2022 ) during COVID. Another longitudinal study of Chinese college students found that COVID-related stress in February 2020 predicted CSB symptoms in June 2020, and that this effect was mediated by increases in anxiety (Deng et al, 2021 ). While these studies provide limited evidence for an increase in CSB during COVID, they did not investigate how COVID impacted individuals with CSB.…”

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Compulsive Sexual Behavior and Changes in Solitary Sexual Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The aim of with this brief report is to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic differentially impacted solitary sexual behaviors in those with and without clinically significant compulsive sexual behavior (CSB). A total of 944 individuals in the United States completed an online cross-sectional survey in October 2020. Participants were asked to retrospectively report their frequency of masturbation and pornography use during the pandemic and prior to the pandemic. Participants also completed assessments of CSB, depression symptoms, and experiences of financial stress caused by the pandemic. Individuals who screened positive for clinically significant CSB reported statistically significant increases in masturbation and pornography use during the pandemic. Those who screened negative for CSB reported no significant increase in masturbation and a very small, statistically significant increase in pornography use. Those screening positive for CSB also reported significantly higher levels of depression symptoms but did not report increased likelihood of experiencing financial distress due to the pandemic. This suggests that increases in masturbation and pornography use reported by some, but not all, recent studies on sexual behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic may be driven by individuals with CSB. Future research on sexual behaviors during the pandemic should assess CSB to further clarify its relationship with sexual behavior changes.

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Longitudinal influence of COVID-19-related stress on sexual compulsivity symptoms in Chinese undergraduates

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Gender differences in the association of psychological distress and sexual compulsivity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Gender differences in the association of psychological distress and sexual compulsivity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Intelligent Recognition and Analysis of Negative Emotions of Undergraduates Under COVID-19

Compulsive Sexual Behavior and Changes in Solitary Sexual Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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