Testing the content progression thesis: A longitudinal assessment of pornography use and preference for coercive and violent content among male adolescents

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Ivan Landripet https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6276-9742
• Author: Vesna Buško https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8644-0688
• Author: Aleksandar Štulhofer https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5138-3644
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Psychology)
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Sociology)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Specific Sociologies
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology

Abstract (english)

Content progression thesis (CPT), a direct application of conditioning theories to conceptualizing exposure to pornography, proposes that pornography use leads to viewing increasingly more extreme material due to the effect of satiation. To test this assumption, association between the frequency of pornography use and the preference for violent and coercive content were examined over a 24-month period using an online panel sample of male adolescents. Participants were 248 high school students who took part in at least three of five waves of the PROBIOPS study. The average baseline age was 16.1. Dual-domain latent growth curve modeling was used to test the CPT. The preference for violent/coercive pornography was found to decrease over time. Moreover, its dynamics was unrelated to latent growth in pornography use. In this first longitudinal assessment, the CPT was not found to be a useful model for understanding the patterns and potential consequences of adolescent pornography use.

• Keywords (english): Content progression; Pornography; Violent/coercive pornography content; Adolescents
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Accepted version
• Journal title: Social Science Research
• Numbering: vol. 81, pp. 32-41
• p-ISSN: 0049-089X
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.03.003
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:822062
• Publication: 2019-03-07
• Project: Number: IP-2013-11-9221; Title (croatian): Prospektivno biopsihosocijalno istraživanje utjecaja seksualno eksplicitnih materijala na socijalizaciju i zdravlje mladih; Acronym: PROBIOPS SEM STUDY; Leader: Aleksandar Štulhofer; Jurisdiction: Croatia; Funding stream: IP
• Document URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0049089X18308354
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access; Embargo expiration date: 2020-03-07
• Public note: © 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Created on: 2019-10-25 11:31:17