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Abstract
To what degree do addictions to drugs, sex, love, and food correlate with each other? Are there meaningful sex differences in the addictions? To study this, 9,313 college students (3,083 males, 6,230 females) rated 13 items on 0–100 scales for their dependency/addiction to the things represented by the items. Results indicated that males reported significantly more addictions than females, but females were more likely than males to report addictions for cigarettes, chocolate, and food in general. Results also showed consistent intercorrelations, typically in the 0.20's or 0.30's, but sometimes higher. Not only did things correlate within their category—e.g., the different drugs correlated with each other, indicating polydrug use—but correlations occurred between unrelated topics, such as dependency/addiction to alcohol correlating with dependency/addiction to having sex. The findings support the notion of small but significant overlap in the various dependencies/addictions, and of sex differences in the various addictions.
Notes
*p ≤ .05
**p ≤ .01.
**p ≤ .05;
****p ≤ .01.