Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Bucharest, 050663 Bucharest, Romania.
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences, National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, 012104 Bucharest, Romania.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 7;19(12):6979. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19126979.
Self-concept differentiation (SCD) has been of interest to researchers, mainly as a structural concept indicative of social specialization or self-concept fragmentation. Nevertheless, this aspect of self-representation has not been studied in regard to sexuality and the extent to which the sexual self may vary across different roles or situations. With the emergence of the Internet, people found new opportunities to explore and express aspects of their sexuality in multiple online scenes, thus increasing the complexity of human sexual experience and expanding the reach of sexual identity. The aim of this study is to investigate SCD in relation to the sexual self-concept, as experienced in the online and offline environments, and its effects on sexual identity, sexual satisfaction and online sexual behaviors. Data analysis pointed towards a fragmented self-view with high degrees of differentiation between the online and offline sexual self-instances being linked to a weaker sense of sexual identity, less sexual satisfaction in real life and less partnered online interactions. However, there were some indications that these relationships were influenced by how people perceive themselves sexually in one instance compared to the other. The results obtained in this study encourage further research on SCD as an important factor in understanding the real-world consequences of online sexual expression.
自我概念分化（SCD）一直是研究人员关注的焦点，主要是作为一个结构概念，表明社会专业化或自我概念碎片化。然而，自我表现的这一方面尚未针对性行为进行研究，也没有研究性自我在不同角色或情况下可能会有多大的变化。随着互联网的出现，人们发现了探索和表达多个在线场景中自己的性行为的新机会，从而增加了人类性体验的复杂性，并扩大了性身份的范围。本研究旨在探讨与在线和离线环境中的性自我概念相关的 SCD，以及它对性身份、性满足和在线性行为的影响。数据分析表明，自我视图碎片化，在线和离线性自我实例之间的分化程度很高，这与较弱的性身份感、现实生活中的性满足感较低以及伴侣在线互动较少有关。然而，有一些迹象表明，这些关系受到人们如何在一个实例中感知自己的性行为与另一个实例的影响。本研究的结果鼓励进一步研究 SCD，将其作为理解在线性表达对现实世界影响的一个重要因素。
