TY - JOUR
T1 - Why Do People Watch Pornography?
T2 - Cross-Cultural Validation of the Pornography Use Motivations Scale (PUMS) and Its Short Form (PUMS-8)
AU - NA Sungkyunkwan University’s research team
AU - Koós, Mónika
AU - Nagy, Léna
AU - Kraus, Shane W
AU - Demetrovics, Zsolt
AU - Potenza, Marc N
AU - Gaudet, Émilie
AU - Ballester-Arnal, Rafael
AU - Batthyány, Dominik
AU - Bergeron, Sophie
AU - Billieux, Joël
AU - Briken, Peer
AU - Burkauskas, Julius
AU - Cárdenas-López, Georgina
AU - Carvalho, Joana
AU - Castro-Calvo, Jesús
AU - Chang, Yun-Hsuan
AU - Chen, Lijun
AU - Ciocca, Giacomo
AU - Corazza, Ornella
AU - Csako, Rita I
AU - Fernandez, David P
AU - Fujiwara, Hironobu
AU - Fernandez, Elaine F
AU - Fuss, Johannes
AU - Gabrhelík, Roman
AU - Gewirtz-Meydan, Ateret
AU - Gjoneska, Biljana
AU - Gola, Mateusz
AU - Grubbs, Joshua B
AU - Hashim, Hashim T
AU - Hsieh, Yi-Ping
AU - Islam, Md Saiful
AU - Ismail, Mustafa
AU - Jiménez-Martínez, Martha C
AU - Jurin, Tanja
AU - Kalina, Ondrej
AU - Klein, Verena
AU - Költő, András
AU - Lee, Sang-Kyu
AU - Lewczuk, Karol
AU - Lochner, Christine
AU - López-Alvarado, Silvia
AU - Lukavská, Kateřina
AU - Mayta-Tristán, Percy
AU - Miller, Dan J
AU - Orosová, Oľga
AU - Orosz, Gábor
AU - Ponce, Fernando P
AU - Quintana, Gonzalo R
AU - Quintero Garzola, Gabriel C
AU - Ramos-Diaz, Jano
AU - Rigaud, Kévin
AU - Rousseau, Ann
AU - Scanavino, Marco De Tubino
AU - Schulmeyer, Marion K
AU - Sharan, Pratap
AU - Shibata, Mami
AU - Shoib, Sheikh
AU - Sigre-Leirós, Vera
AU - Sniewski, Luke
AU - Spasovski, Ognen
AU - Steibliene, Vesta
AU - Stein, Dan J
AU - Strizek, Julian
AU - Štulhofer, Alexandar
AU - Ünsal, Berk C
AU - Vaillancourt-Morel, Marie-Pier
AU - Van Hout, Marie Claire
AU - Bőthe, Beáta
PY - 2024/6/21
Y1 - 2024/6/21
N2 - Motivations for pornography use may vary across gender identities, sexual orientations, and geographical regions, warranting examination to promote individual and public health. The aims of this study were to validate the Pornography Use Motivations Scale (PUMS) in a diverse, multicultural sample, and develop a short form (PUMS-8) that can assess a wide range of pornography use motivations. Using data from 42 countries (N = 75,117; Mage = 32.07; SDage = 12.37), enabled us to thoroughly evaluate the dimensionality, validity, and reliability of the Pornography Use Motivations Scale (PUMS), leading to the development of the more concise PUMS-8 short scale. Additionally, language-, nationality-, gender-, and sexual-orientation-based measurement invariance tests were conducted to test the comparability across groups. Both the PUMS and the PUMS-8 assess eight pornography use motivations, and both demonstrated excellent psychometric properties. Sexual Pleasure emerged as the most frequent motivation for pornography use across countries, genders, and sexual orientations, while differences were observed concerning other motivations (e.g. self-exploration was more prevalent among gender-diverse individuals than men or women). The motivational background of pornography use showed high similarity in the examined countries. Both the PUMS and the PUMS-8 are reliable and valid measurement tools to assess different types of motivations for pornography use across countries, genders, and sexual orientations. Both scales are recommended for use in research and clinical settings.
AB - Motivations for pornography use may vary across gender identities, sexual orientations, and geographical regions, warranting examination to promote individual and public health. The aims of this study were to validate the Pornography Use Motivations Scale (PUMS) in a diverse, multicultural sample, and develop a short form (PUMS-8) that can assess a wide range of pornography use motivations. Using data from 42 countries (N = 75,117; Mage = 32.07; SDage = 12.37), enabled us to thoroughly evaluate the dimensionality, validity, and reliability of the Pornography Use Motivations Scale (PUMS), leading to the development of the more concise PUMS-8 short scale. Additionally, language-, nationality-, gender-, and sexual-orientation-based measurement invariance tests were conducted to test the comparability across groups. Both the PUMS and the PUMS-8 assess eight pornography use motivations, and both demonstrated excellent psychometric properties. Sexual Pleasure emerged as the most frequent motivation for pornography use across countries, genders, and sexual orientations, while differences were observed concerning other motivations (e.g. self-exploration was more prevalent among gender-diverse individuals than men or women). The motivational background of pornography use showed high similarity in the examined countries. Both the PUMS and the PUMS-8 are reliable and valid measurement tools to assess different types of motivations for pornography use across countries, genders, and sexual orientations. Both scales are recommended for use in research and clinical settings.
U2 - 10.1080/00224499.2024.2359641
DO - 10.1080/00224499.2024.2359641
M3 - Article
C2 - 38905162
SN - 0022-4499
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Journal of Sex Research
JF - Journal of Sex Research
ER -