Effect of pornography addiction and dating anxiety in relation to mental health

https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS1.7366

Authors

  • Simran MA General Psychology Final Year Student, School of Humanities, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India
  • Kalpana Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of psychology, Lovely professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India
  • Divya Srivastva Assistant Professor, Department of psychology, Lovely professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

Keywords:

Pornography addiction, Dating anxiety, Mental health, Youth

Abstract

In the contemporary period, in the period of information and communication technology revolution, internethas been as sources, which is largely being used for dating, friendship, mate selection and sexual pleasure purposes by youths. There are many things which are available in internet and pornography is one of them. Pornography as sources of online entrainment has been addicted by youth and is a type of addiction characterized by obsessive sexual activity. The pornographic addiction and obsessive sexual activities are combined with the usage of pornographic content and materials. As the various researches have been proved that these types of pornographic content has negative physical, mental, or social repercussions. The objective of the present study is to understand and explain how pornography addiction and dating anxiety affected people's mental health and their well-beings. According to the objective of the present study, the total number of 116 participants were selected with under the age group of 18-27 which including both male and female.

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Published

14-05-2022

How to Cite

Simran, S., Sharma, K., & Srivastva, D. (2022). Effect of pornography addiction and dating anxiety in relation to mental health. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(S1), 10031–10040. https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS1.7366

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