Associations between adolescents watching pornography and poor mental health in three Swedish surveys.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to examine the association between watching pornography and poor mental health in three repeated cross-sectional surveys in Sweden (2004, 2009, 2014) among high school seniors (13,277 students) with an average age of 18 years. The same index questions concerning ever having watched pornography and the frequency of watching pornography during the last year were combined with three different measures of psychological health and background control variables in multiple logistic regression and forward stepwise logistic regression models. The repeated cross-sectional surveys did not find any consistent associations across years between poor mental health and ever having watched pornography or the frequency of watching pornography. Having watched deviant pornography (co

SUBMITTER: Svedin CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10460300 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature