This study from Brigham Young University examines pornography consumption and how its acceptance affect behaviors of college students, both male and female. The conductors of this study were aware that many have researched direct effects of pornography; however, they realized that there was little studies done on how people viewed pornography and sexual behaviors linked to pornography. This study, as a whole, focused on pornography consumption, acceptance, and sexual behaviors. They wanted to figure out how this affected a relationship and the development of an individual because no study has examined the combination of “pornography consumption and sexual behavior and how this associates with well-being or how associations vary by acceptance
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RQ2: How might pornography use, acceptance and relational sexual behaviours be combined to create meaningful groups among emerging adults and how might such groups differ on both behavioural and mental health outcomes?” (Willoughby et al. 1055). The subjects in this study were college students because they wanted to know how this affected emerging adults. These adults were from a study of emerging adults from called “project READY (Research Emerging Adults’ Developmental Years)” (Willoughby et al. 1055). There were 792 people from 4 universities. They mentioned the racial breakdown being “69% White... 18% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 3% African American and 5%... and 69% women” (B.J. Willoughby et al 1056). The study was accessible to these students through teaching staff mentioning that there would be a survey to the undergraduate courses. They noted that the response rate was different everywhere but it was about 60% (Willoughby et al. …show more content…
It comes to the conclusion that porn and sexual relations have to be separated by gender. Also, it shows regardless of gender, it is detrimental to both genders in different ways. For women it is self-worth, and for men it is risky behaviors.
However, there was a lot of fault in this study that could make better results if one wanted to attempt again. First off, the study was really hectic because it asked too much. The results were not focused on one area. It went from education, to acceptance, to pornography use, to sexual behavior, to self-worth and depressive symptoms. When analyzing the study, an individual can get lost in the whole purpose because the data is so scrambled and hitting multiple points. It was hard to summarize data and get a takeaway of the results due to it not only targeting education, but mental health, and substance
RQ2: How might pornography use, acceptance and relational sexual behaviours be combined to create meaningful groups among emerging adults and how might such groups differ on both behavioural and mental health outcomes?” (Willoughby et al. 1055). The subjects in this study were college students because they wanted to know how this affected emerging adults. These adults were from a study of emerging adults from called “project READY (Research Emerging Adults’ Developmental Years)” (Willoughby et al. 1055). There were 792 people from 4 universities. They mentioned the racial breakdown being “69% White... 18% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 3% African American and 5%... and 69% women” (B.J. Willoughby et al 1056). The study was accessible to these students through teaching staff mentioning that there would be a survey to the undergraduate courses. They noted that the response rate was different everywhere but it was about 60% (Willoughby et al. …show more content…
It comes to the conclusion that porn and sexual relations have to be separated by gender. Also, it shows regardless of gender, it is detrimental to both genders in different ways. For women it is self-worth, and for men it is risky behaviors.
However, there was a lot of fault in this study that could make better results if one wanted to attempt again. First off, the study was really hectic because it asked too much. The results were not focused on one area. It went from education, to acceptance, to pornography use, to sexual behavior, to self-worth and depressive symptoms. When analyzing the study, an individual can get lost in the whole purpose because the data is so scrambled and hitting multiple points. It was hard to summarize data and get a takeaway of the results due to it not only targeting education, but mental health, and substance