The relationship between personality traits and sexual variety seeking

Nasrollahi, Bita; Darandegan, Keyvan; Rafatmah, Azar

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.272

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“…This association has been demonstrated in previous studies through a positive correlation between depressive and anxious symptoms with sexual risk behaviors (Heath et al, 2012;Houston et al, 2012). Furthermore, this association is exacerbated by drug use and specific personality characteristics, such as extraversion, which has been related to having a high number of sexual partners (Schmitt, 2004), sexual variety seeking (Nasrollahi et al, 2011), and substance use (Atherton et al, 2014). No correlation was found between personality traits and sexual behavior, but a positive correlation was found between neuroticism and depression.…”

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“…Anxiety also presented a negative correlation with responsibility. Conscientious individuals tend to be less anxious (Kaplan et al, 2015), and the higher the levels of responsibility, the lower the pursuit of sexual variety (Nasrollahi et al, 2011). Moreover, the lower the level of this trait, the greater the likelihood that individuals will engage in risky sexual practices and other risky behaviors (Trobst et al, 2002).…”

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Psychoneuroimmunologic Correlates in a Group of Men who Have Sex with Men with Risky Sexual Behaviors

Restrepo,

Giraldo,

Gutierrez

et al. 2023

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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This work aims to know what correlations can be found among psychological, neuropsychological, neurobiological, and immunological measures in a group of men who have sex with men negative for anti-HIV-1/2 antibodies which have sexual risk behaviors. Statistically significant correlations were found among certain behavioral, emotional, personality, neurobiological, and immunological variables. The circuit of interactions among depression, stress, neuroticism, and conscientiousness stands out, which could indirectly explain risky sexual behavior. In summary, there is a relationship between personality characteristics, mood disorders, risk behaviors, and an activated T cell profile.

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confidence: 99%

Psychoneuroimmunologic Correlates in a Group of Men who Have Sex with Men with Risky Sexual Behaviors

Restrepo,

Giraldo,

Gutierrez

et al. 2023

Psic.: Teor. e Pesq.

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“…The questionnaire was made available online for the period of a year (February 2017–August 2018). Since it was previously reported that personal traits may influence sexual activities such as novelty seeking [47], selected personality traits were self-identified by students being able to choose one the two opposite characteristics that suited them best. The following pairs of traits based on the list given by DeNeve and Cooper [55] were prepared; they included: introversive/extroversive, optimistic/pessimistic, confident/shy, curious/uninquisitive, sensitive/insensitive, happy/sad, calm/aggressive, trustful/conscious, and social/antisocial.…”

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“…This is, therefore, of interest to conduct further studies that would survey large groups and assess to which extent individual characteristics may affect differentiate the patterns of pornography use. For example, it would be interesting whether particular personality traits can be associated with pornography use as some previous studies have reported that they may influence sexual activities, such as novelty seeking [47]. The sexual activities might also be influenced by physical characteristics such as Body Mass Index [48], yet not much is known whether it may be associated in any way with pornography use.…”

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Prevalence, Patterns and Self-Perceived Effects of Pornography Consumption in Polish University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Dwulit

Rzymski

2019

IJERPH

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This cross-sectional online survey of Polish students (n = 6463) assessed the frequency and patterns of pornography consumption, its self-perceived effects, the prevalence of self-perceived pornography addiction, and opinions on the potential effects of pornography and its legal status. Nearly 80% of students have been exposed to pornography (median age of first exposure: 14 years). Streaming videos were decidedly the most frequent form of use. In the subset of current users (n = 4260), daily use and self-perceived addiction was reported by 10.7% and 15.5%, respectively. The majority of those surveyed did not report any negative effects of pornography use on their sexual function, sexual, and relationship satisfaction. Instead, over one-quarter of students in relationships reported beneficial effects on its quality. The most common self-perceived adverse effects of pornography use included: the need for longer stimulation (12.0%) and more sexual stimuli (17.6%) to reach orgasm, and a decrease in sexual satisfaction (24.5%). Females and males with a Body Mass Index >25 kg/m2 more often reported a self-perceived decrease in relationship quality associated with pornography use. Age of first exposure was significantly associated with reported need for longer stimulation and more sexual stimuli to reach orgasm when using pornography, decrease in sexual satisfaction, and quality of romantic relationship, neglect of basic needs and duties due to pornography use, and self-perceived addiction in both females and males. The highest odds ratios were always observed for age <12 years in reference to exposure at >16 years. In the opinion of most of the surveyed students, pornography may have adverse effects on human health, although access restrictions should not be implemented. The study gives a broad insight into the pornography consumption in young Polish adults.

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“…The sexual identity, sexual bias and sexual behavior effect on evolution of one's personality and performance. Thus, the expression "psychosexual" in psychiatry is applied to describe the growth, personality function and effect of sexual desires on the same (Nasrollahi, 2011).…”

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Sexual life assessment in individuals with different kind of relationships

Gagica

Fejza

2020

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Sexual life and intimacy mainly is based by one’s personality, knowledge and attitudes toward others. Someone’s personality can tell us how they approach all sorts of different things in life, including sexual life. To audit sexual life it is necessary to assess it through asking people who have a regular partner or whoever they are having sex, or their last relationship. The study included 500 subjects from Albania and Kosovo. The questionnaire was delivered through Survey planet app. The audit was opened during June 2019. Questionnaire contains 15 questions with A, B, C alternatives. The data were analyzed through SPSS software. Using the program, a series of Student’s t-tests was conducted for independent samples and correlation analysis with Pearson’s coefficient. The answers were categorized in three categories: mostly A, mostly B and mostly C. Female respondents were 54.6 % whereas 45.4% male. The majority, 78% ranked in age group 21-50 years old, from whom 71.4 % were married. Mostly A score frequently found at 53.60 % of participants which sounds like they and their partners have a really healthy and satisfying sex life. “Mostly B” answered by 32% of participants which means that they were mostly satisfied with their sex life, and it seems like sometimes they can feel a little disconnected. Mostly C score is most commonly found at 14.40% of participants. This study shows that more than a half of the participants have a satisfying and a healthy sexual life.

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The relationship between personality traits and sexual variety seeking

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Psychoneuroimmunologic Correlates in a Group of Men who Have Sex with Men with Risky Sexual Behaviors

Psychoneuroimmunologic Correlates in a Group of Men who Have Sex with Men with Risky Sexual Behaviors

Prevalence, Patterns and Self-Perceived Effects of Pornography Consumption in Polish University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Sexual life assessment in individuals with different kind of relationships

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