Características psicológicas de consumidores de cibersexo: una aproximación

The aim of the current research was to identify the psychological characteristics of Cybersexconsumers. A correlational descriptive design was conducted with a view to evaluatingboth demographic and psychological aspects. The inquiry comprised 109 questions tar-geted at 200 respondents through the I...

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Autores:
Sanabria-Ferrand, Pablo Alfonso
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2004
Institución:
Universidad Católica de Colombia
Repositorio:
RIUCaC - Repositorio U. Católica
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.ucatolica.edu.co:10983/17755
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/10983/17755
Palabra clave:
INTERNET
SEXUALIDAD HUMANA
ADICCIÓN
INTERNET
HUMAN SEXUALITY
ADDICTION
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Summary:The aim of the current research was to identify the psychological characteristics of Cybersexconsumers. A correlational descriptive design was conducted with a view to evaluatingboth demographic and psychological aspects. The inquiry comprised 109 questions tar-geted at 200 respondents through the Internet. The final results according to the givenindicators show that consumers of Cybersex predominantly tend to be young men (aged20 to 39), bachelors, most of them university students or professionals, heterosexuals, whoare in a steady sexual relationship.When it comes to consuming Cybersex, the users prefer the chat to Web pages, and they doit regularly with an average of 2, 2 times per week. Such people are accustomed to chang-ing their identity, physical appearance, sex and age when surfing the Internet.On average, a few more than half the respondents (consumers) declared themselves ad-dicted to Cybersex. They didn’t show sexual dissatisfaction but they did report low self-concept. Half the respondents' results demonstrated moderate scores in relation to theindicators of depression and anxiety.