Cybersex Addiction Among College Students: A Prevalence Study

References

• American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author.
   Google Scholar
• Boies, S. C., Cooper, A., & Osborne, C. S. (2004). Variations in internet-related problems and psychosocial functioning in online sexual activities: Implications for social and sexual development of young adults. Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 7, 207–230.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Bryant, P., & Shim, J. W. (2008). Gender, sexual affect, and motivation for internet pornography use. International Journal of Sex Health, 20, 187–199. doi:10.1080/19317610802240154
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Byers, E. S., & Shaughnessy, K. (2014). Attitudes toward online sexual activities. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 8, article 10. doi:10.5817/CP2014-1-10
   Google Scholar
• Carnes, P. (2001). Out of the shadows: Understanding sexual addiction (3rd ed.). Center City, MN: Hazeldon.
   Google Scholar
• Carnes, P., Green, B., & Carnes, S. (2010). The same yet different: Refocusing the Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST) to reflect orientation and gender. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 17, 7–30. doi:10.1080/10720161003604084
   Google Scholar
• Cash, H., Rae, C. D., Steel, A. H., & Winkler, A. (2012). Internet addiction: A brief summary of research and practice. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 8, 292–298. doi:10.2174/157340012803520513
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Cashwell, C. S., Giordano, A. L., Lewis, T. F., Wachtel, K. A., & Bartley, J. L. (2015). Using the PATHOS questionnaire for screening sexual addiction among college students: A preliminary exploration. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 22, 154–166. doi:10.1080/10720162.2015.1037481
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cooper, A. (1998). Sexuality and the internet: Surfing into the new millennium. Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 1, 187–193.
   Google Scholar
• Cooper, A., Delmonico, D. L., & Burg, R. (2000). Cybersex users, abusers, and compulsives: New findings and implications. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 7, 5–29.
   Google Scholar
• Cooper, A., Delmonico, D. L., Griffin-Shelley, E., & Mathy, R. M. (2004). Online sexual activity: An examination of potentially problematic behaviors. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 11, 129–143. doi:10.1080/10720160490882642
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cooper, A., & Griffin-Shelley, E. (2002). Introduction. The internet: The next sexual revolution. In A. Cooper (Ed.), Sex and the internet: A guidebook for clinicians (pp. 1–19). New York, NY: Brunner-Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Cooper, A., Scherer, C. R., Boies, S. C., & Gordon, B. L. (1999). Sexuality on the internet: From sexual exploration to pathological expression. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 30, 154–164. doi:10.1037/0735-7028.30.2.154
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Delmonico, D. L., Bubenzer, D. L., & West, J. D. (1998). Assessing sexual addiction with the Sexual Dependency Inventory–Revised. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 5, 179–187.
   Google Scholar
• Delmonico, D. L., & Carnes, P. J. (1999). Virtual sex addiction: When cybersex becomes the drug of choice. Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 2, 457–463. doi:10.1089/cpb.1999.2.457
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Delmonico, D. L., & Griffin, E. J. (2011). Cybersex addiction and compulsivity. In K. S. Young & C. Nabuco de Abreu (Eds.), Internet addiction: A handbook and guide to evaluation and treatment (pp. 113–134). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
   Google Scholar
• Delmonico, D. L., & Miller, J. A. (2003). The Internet Sex Screening Test: A comparison of sexual compulsives versus non-sexual compulsives. Sexual & Relationship Therapy, 18, 261–276. doi:10.1080/1468199031000153900
   Google Scholar
• Doring, N., Daneback, K., Shaughnessy, K., Grov, C., & Byers, E. S. (2015). Online sexual activity experience among college students: A four-country comparison. Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 10, 2015. doi:10.1007/s10508-015-0656-4
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Eleuteri, S., Tripodi, F., Petruccelli, I., Rossi, R., & Simonelli, C. (2014). Questionnaires and scales for the evaluation of the online sexual activities: A review of 20 years of research. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 8, article 2. doi:10.5817/cp2014-2-2
   Google Scholar
• Ferree, M. C. (2003). Women and the web: Cybersex activity and implications. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 18, 385–393. doi:10.1080/1468199031000153973
   Google Scholar
• Giordano, A. L., & Cecil, A. L. (2014). Religious coping, spirituality, and hypersexual behavior among college students. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 21, 225–239. doi:10.1080/10720162.2014.936542
   Google Scholar
• Giordano, A. L., Prosek, E. A., Cecil, A. L., & Brown, A. (2015). Predictors of hypersexual behavior among college men and women: Exploring self-conscious emotions. Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling, 36, 113–125.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Goldberg, P. D., Peterson, B. D., Rosen, K. H., & Sara, M. L. (2008). Cybersex: The impact of a contemporary problem on the practices of Marriage and Family Therapists. Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy, 34, 469–480. doi:10.1111/j.1752.0606.2008.0089.x
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Green, B. A., Carnes, S., Carnes, P. J., & Weinman, E. A. (2012). Cybersex addiction patterns in a clinical sample of homosexual, heterosexual, and bisexual men and women. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 19, 77–98. doi:10.1080/10720162.2012.658343
   Google Scholar
• Netcraft. (2016, July). Web server survey. Retrieved from http://news.netcraft.com
   Google Scholar
• O'Reilly, S., Knox, D., & Zusman, M. E. (2007). College student attitudes toward pornography use. College Student Journal, 41, 402–406.
   Google Scholar
• Perry, M., Accordino, M. P., & Hewes, R. L. (2007). An investigation of internet use, sexual and nonsexual sensation seeking, and sexual compulsivity among college students. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 14, 321–335. doi:10.1080/10720160701719304
   Google Scholar
• Riemersma, J., & Sytsma, M. (2013). A new generation of sexual addiction. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 20, 306–322. doi:10.1080/10720162.2013.843067
   Google Scholar
• Seegers, J. A. (2003). The prevalence of sexual addiction symptoms on the college campus. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 10, 247–258. doi:10.1080/10720160390268942
   Google Scholar
• Shaughnessy, K., & Byers, E. S. (2014). Contextualizing cybersex experience: Heterosexually identified men and women's desire for and experience of cybersex with three types of partners. Computers in Human Behavior, 32, 178–185. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2013.12.005
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weinstein, A., Feder, L. C., Rosenberg, K. P., & Dannon, P. (2014). Internet addiction disorder: Overview and controversies. In K. P. Rosenberg, & L. C. Feder (Eds.), Behavioral addictions: Criteria, evidence, and treatment (pp. 99–116). London, UK: Elsevier.
   Google Scholar
• Wery, A., & Billieux, J. (2015). Problematic cybersex: Conceptualization, assessment, and treatment. Addictive Behaviors. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2015.11.007
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson, G. (2014). Your brain on porn: Internet pornography and the emerging science of addiction. UK: Commonwealth.
   Google Scholar
• Young, K. S., Yue, X. D., & Ying, L. (2011). Prevalence estimates and etiologic models of internet addiction. In K. S. Young & C. Nabuco de Abreu (Eds.), Internet addiction: A handbook and guide to evaluation and treatment (pp. 3–18). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
   Google Scholar
• Young, R. S. (1998). Internet addiction: The emergence of a new clinical disorder. Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 1, 237–244. doi:10.1089/cpb.1998.1.237
   Google Scholar