Institute of Psychology,Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,Poland.
Faculty of Education and Society and Culture,Beit-Berl College, Kefar Sava,Israel.
J Behav Addict. 2019 Sep 1;8(3):420-431. doi: 10.1556/2006.8.2019.33. Epub 2019 Jul 22.
Compulsive sexual behavior (CSB) has implications for clinical and non-clinical adult populations. Disposition to CSB has been shown to influence adolescence sexual behaviors, but the development of adolescents' disposition toward CSB has yet to be examined in the family context. In this study, we investigated whether parent-adolescent communication mediates the links between parental characteristics and adolescents' CSB.
The sample included 275 Israeli families [triad of mothers (age = 34-63 years, = 45.48, = 5.46), fathers (age = 36-83 years, = 48.33, = 6.63), and one adolescent (48.2% boys, 51.1% girls; age = 14-18 years, = 16.23, = 1.18)]. Parents completed measures of psychopathology, parental self-esteem, and parental self-efficacy, and adolescents completed measures of quality of sex-related communication and CSB.
The results indicate that, for girls, higher maternal self-esteem and lower psychopathology were linked with better sex-related communication and so with lower CSB. For boys, only parental religiosity was linked with the quality of sex-related communication and CSB, with religious parents having better communication than secular ones.
The findings provide an opportunity for researchers to gain a better insight into the dynamics of familial factors in the development of CSB among adolescents.
强迫性行为（CSB）对临床和非临床成年人群都有影响。已经表明，CSB 的倾向会影响青少年的性行为，但在家庭环境中，青少年对 CSB 的倾向发展尚未得到研究。在这项研究中，我们调查了父母与青少年的沟通是否在父母特征与青少年 CSB 之间的关系中起中介作用。
样本包括 275 个以色列家庭[母亲（年龄 34-63 岁， = 45.48， = 5.46）、父亲（年龄 36-83 岁， = 48.33， = 6.63）和一个青少年（48.2%男孩，51.1%女孩；年龄 14-18 岁， = 16.23， = 1.18）]。父母完成了心理病理学、父母自尊和父母自我效能感的测量，青少年完成了与性相关的沟通质量和 CSB 的测量。
结果表明，对于女孩，母亲的自尊越高，心理病理学越低，与性相关的沟通越好，因此 CSB 越低。对于男孩，只有父母的宗教信仰与与性相关的沟通和 CSB 有关，与世俗的父母相比，宗教的父母的沟通更好。
这些发现为研究人员提供了一个机会，可以更好地了解家庭因素在青少年 CSB 发展中的动态。
