Does the Sexual Nature of Trauma Moderate the Relationship Between Post-Traumatic Stress and Compulsive Sexual Behaviors? Investigating Trauma Experiences in the Light of Compulsive Sexual Behavior and Problematic Pornography Use
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study examined the relationships between symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTS), compulsive sexual behavior (CSB), and problematic pornography use (PPU) while investigating the moderating roles of two types of lifetime trauma experiences (sexual, physical injury-related, and their combination) and gender. Using data from 2,900 American adults (52.5% men, 45.2% women, and 2.3% gender-diverse individuals), we conducted moderated linear regressions to test whether the PTS-CSB and PTS-PPU relationships varied by trauma type and gender. Findings indicated that PTS significantly and positively predicted both CSB and PPU. Originally, trauma type did not significantly moderate the PTS-CSB relationship, only the PTS-PPU relationship. However, a sensitivity analysis revealed a significant moderating effect of sexual trauma on both associations. Contrary to our hypothesis, individuals with sexual-only trauma and higher PTS indicated lower CSB/PPU scores than those with physical injury-related trauma, combined trauma, or no trauma, suggesting that sexual-only trauma may also be linked with sexual avoidance in some individuals. Gender moderated the associations, with men exhibiting higher CSB and PPU scores than women in the presence of higher levels of PTS. Implications and recommendations for future research are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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