Sexual addiction, sexual compulsivity, sexual impulsivity, or what? Toward a theoretical model

Journal of Sex Research, August, 2004 by John Bancroft, Zoran Vukadinovic

Table 1. Comparison of Male "Sex Addicts" and Controls
for Personality Trait Measures

              Sex addicts                   Controls

Trait     M       (SE)     n      M       (SE)      n        p

MS-1      6.2    (0.41)    26     3.8    (0.11)    243    < 0.001
MS-3      6.7    (0.35)    27     4.3    (0.11)    282    < 0.001
SES      59.4    (1.17)    29    55.9    (0.45)    338      0.029
SIS1     28.1    (1.05)    29    28.9    (0.31)    338      ns
SIS2     28.0    (0.96)    29    28.3    (0.24)    335      ns
ZDPR     67.0    (5.66)    13    53.5    (1.08)    337      0.016

Note. MS-1 = sexual interest when depressed; MS-3 = sexual interest
when anxious/stressed; SES = Sexual Excitation Scale; SIS1 = sexual
inhibition due to threat of performance failure; SIS2 = sexual
inhibition due to threat of performance consequences; ZDPR = Zemore
Depression Proneness Rating.

Table 2. MSQ Scores in "Depression Regulators" Versus
Rest and Controls (a)

          Depression
          regulators         Rest
           (n = 14)        (n = 12)

MSQ       M      (SE)      M      (SE)               p

MS-1     7.2    (0.31)    5.0    (0.69)    1 vs. 2 = 0.007
                                           1 vs. controls < 0.001
                                           2 vs. controls = 0.06
MS-3     7.3    (0.32)    6.0    (0.62)    1 vs. controls < 0.001
                                           2 vs. controls = 0.009

(a) Values for controls are given in Table 1.

Table 3. MSQ Scores in "Anxiety Regulators" Versus Rest
and Controls (a)

           Anxiety
         regulators        Rest
          (n = 14)        (n = 13)

MSQ      M      (SE)      M      (SE)                 p

MS-1    6.0    (0.51)    6.4    (0.68)    1, 2 vs. controls < 0.001
MS-3    7.0    (0.41)    6.4    (0.57)    1, 2 vs. controls < 0.001

(a) Values for controls are given in Table 1.

Table 4. Comparison of "Compulsive Masturbators" With
Rest and Controls (a) Personality Trait Measures

          Compulsive
         mastubartors           Rest
           (n = 17)           (n = 9)

MSQ       M       (SE)      M       (SE)                 p

MS-1      5.7    (0.57)     7.1    (0.35)    1, 2 vs. controls < 0.001
MS-3      6.5    (0.49)     7.1    (0.36)    1, 2 vs. controls < 0.001
SES      58.9    (1.32)    60.3    (2.36)    all comparisons ns
SIS1     28.2    (1.43)    28.0    (1.50)    all comparisons ns
SIS2     29.5    (1.22)    25.1    (1.09)    1 vs. 2 = 0.03
                                             2 vs. controls = 0.07

(a) Values for controls are given in Table 1.

Table 5. Comparison of Paraphilic and Nonparaphilic "Sex
Addicts" and Controls (a) for Personality Trait Measures

           Paraphilic      Nonparaphilic
            (n = 9)          (n = 19)

Trait     M       (SE)      M       (SE)                 p

MS-1      6.6    (0.56)     6.0    (0.56)    1, 2 vs. controls < 0.001
MS-3      7.4    (0.33)     6.4    (0.48)    1, 2 vs. controls < 0.001
SES      61.9    (1.87)    58.0    (1.43)    1 vs. controls = 0.06
SIS1     30.0    (1.52)    27.1    (1.37)    all comparisons ns
SIS2     26.6    (1.30)    28.7    (1.28)    all comparisons ns

(a) Values for controls are given in Table 1.

Table 6. Comparison of "Dissociators" With the Rest and
Controls (a) for Personality Trait Measures

         Dissociators      Rest
         (n = 13)          (n = 16)

Trait     M       (SE)      M       (SE)                 p

MS-1      6.2    (0.76)     6.2    (0.47)    1, 2 vs. controls < 0.001
MS-3      6.7    (0.60)     6.7    (0.42)    l, 2 vs. controls < 0.001
SES      62.3    (1.86)    57.0    (1.25)    1 vs. controls = 0.016
SIS1     29.8    (1.61)    26.7    (1.33)    all comparisons ns
SIS2     27.5    (1.49)    28.4    (1.28)    all comparisons ns

(a) Values for controls are given in Table 1.