Origlia Giulia, Doroldi Davide, Lo Buglio Gabriele, Boldrini Tommaso, Del Casale Antonio, Spitoni Grazia, Limoncin Erika, Ciocca Giacomo
Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00185, Italy.
Department of Psychology and Health Science, Pegaso University, Naples 80143, Italy.
Sex Med. 2025 Jul 25;13(3):qfaf050. doi: 10.1093/sexmed/qfaf050. eCollection 2025 Jun.
Limitation to the Capacity to Love (CTL) and problematic sexuality could be considered as indicators of psychopathological suffering.
We aimed to investigate the relationship between problematic sexuality, specifically hypersexuality, and the symptom dimensions of psychoticism and paranoid ideation, with a focus on the role of the CTL, in a non-clinical sample.
Through an online platform, we recruited a convenience sample of 521 subjects (390 females and 131 males; age span: 18-50).
Recruited subjects completed a psychometric protocol that included completion of the following measurement tools: (1) the Capacity to Love Inventory, (2) the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory, (3) the Brief Symptom Inventory.
Results indicated a significant inverse correlation between CTL and both paranoid ideation and psychoticism, with hypersexuality positively correlated with these symptoms. Linear regression analysis revealed that CTL acts as a protective factor, while hypersexuality is a predictive factor for both psychoticism and paranoid ideation.
The study highlights the importance of evaluating sexual behavior and subclinical symptomatology in non-clinical populations, and it underscores the potential role of CTL as an indicator of relational functioning.
The strength of this research lies undoubtedly in its innovative inclusion of the construct of CTL in studying the relationship between sexuality, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism.However, the research design reveals a gender imbalance that may limit the significance of the findings. Moreover, the study was conducted on a sample primarily composed of students and individuals from Italian cultural backgrounds, which should be considered when generalizing the results.
The relationship between the limitation of the CTL, hypersexuality and paranoid ideation and psychoticism (assessed with the SCL-90) sheds light on the importance of integrating the assessment of a central aspect of human life, that is, the CTL, with problematic sexuality and psychopathological symptoms, in the clinical practice of prevention of sexual and psychological problems.
爱的能力受限（CTL）和性问题可被视为精神病理痛苦的指标。
我们旨在研究性问题，特别是性欲亢进，与精神病性及偏执观念的症状维度之间的关系，重点关注CTL在非临床样本中的作用。
通过在线平台，我们招募了521名受试者的便利样本（390名女性和131名男性；年龄范围：18 - 50岁）。
招募的受试者完成了一份心理测量方案，其中包括完成以下测量工具：（1）爱的能力量表，（2）性欲亢进行为量表，（3）简明症状量表。
结果表明CTL与偏执观念和精神病性均呈显著负相关，性欲亢进与这些症状呈正相关。线性回归分析显示，CTL起到保护因素的作用，而性欲亢进是精神病性和偏执观念的预测因素。
该研究强调了在非临床人群中评估性行为和亚临床症状学的重要性，并强调了CTL作为关系功能指标的潜在作用。
本研究的优势无疑在于在研究性、偏执观念和精神病性之间的关系时创新性地纳入了CTL这一概念。然而，研究设计显示存在性别失衡，这可能会限制研究结果的意义。此外，该研究是在主要由学生和具有意大利文化背景的个体组成的样本上进行的，在推广结果时应予以考虑。
CTL受限、性欲亢进与偏执观念和精神病性（用SCL - 90评估）之间的关系揭示了在性与心理问题预防的临床实践中，将人类生活核心方面即CTL的评估与性问题和精神病理症状相结合的重要性。
