Department of Sociology, University of Oklahoma, 780 Van Vleet Oval, Kaufman Hall 335A, Norman, OK, 73019, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2018 Aug;47(6):1869-1880. doi: 10.1007/s10508-017-1080-8. Epub 2017 Sep 21.
As pornography use continues to increase in the U.S., studies have sought to understand its potential influence on marital relationships. Yet, the primary focus of such studies has been pornography's association with marital quality, not stability. Consequently, we still know relatively little about whether pornography consumption at one time predicts marital disruption later on. Drawing on data from the 2006 and 2012 waves of the nationally representative Portraits of American Life Study (N = 445), this article examined whether married Americans who viewed pornography in 2006, either at all or in greater frequencies, were more likely to experience a marital separation by 2012. Binary logistic regression analyses showed that married Americans who viewed pornography at all in 2006 were more than twice as likely as those who did not view pornography to experience a separation by 2012, even after controlling for 2006 marital happiness and sexual satisfaction as well as relevant sociodemographic correlates. The relationship between pornography use frequency and marital separation, however, was technically curvilinear. The likelihood of marital separation by 2012 increased with 2006 pornography use to a point and then declined at the highest frequencies of pornography use. Ancillary analyses, however, showed that this group of married Americans with high frequencies of 2006 pornography viewing and low likelihood of later marital separation was not statistically distinguishable from either abstainers or moderate viewers in terms of marital separation likelihood. All findings held regardless of gender. Data limitations and implications for future research are discussed.
随着美国色情制品使用的持续增加，研究已经试图了解其对婚姻关系的潜在影响。然而，这些研究的主要重点一直是色情制品与婚姻质量的关联，而不是稳定性。因此，我们仍然不太了解一个人在某个时间点的色情制品消费是否会预测之后的婚姻破裂。本研究利用了具有全国代表性的“美国人生活肖像研究”（Portraits of American Life Study）2006 年和 2012 年两个波次的数据（N=445），检验了在 2006 年观看色情制品的已婚美国人（无论是全部观看还是更频繁地观看），是否更有可能在 2012 年经历婚姻破裂。二元逻辑回归分析表明，在 2006 年观看色情制品的已婚美国人比不观看色情制品的人，在 2012 年经历婚姻破裂的可能性要高出两倍多，即使在控制了 2006 年婚姻幸福感和性满意度以及相关社会人口统计学因素后也是如此。然而，色情制品使用频率与婚姻破裂之间的关系在技术上是曲线关系。在 2006 年观看色情制品的可能性与婚姻破裂的可能性呈正相关，直到达到一定程度，然后在使用色情制品的最高频率时下降。然而，辅助分析表明，这组在 2006 年高频率观看色情制品但后来婚姻破裂可能性较低的已婚美国人，在婚姻破裂的可能性方面，与禁欲者或适度观看者在统计学上没有区别。所有发现都与性别无关。讨论了数据限制和对未来研究的意义。
