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Boredom Proneness, Social Connectedness, and Sexual Addiction Among Men Who Have Sex With Male Internet Users
Author(s) -
Chaney Michael P.,
Blalock Andrew C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of addictions and offender counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2161-1874
pISSN - 1055-3835
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1874.2006.tb00012.x
Subject(s) - boredom , social connectedness , psychosocial , psychology , addiction , men who have sex with men , clinical psychology , the internet , sex partners , psychiatry , social psychology , medicine , condom , family medicine , syphilis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , world wide web , computer science
The authors collected surveys from 517 men who have sex with men (MSM) recruited from Internet chat rooms to examine the relationships among boredom, social connectedness, and sexual addiction. The results provide addictions professionals psychosocial factors to assess when working with sexually addicted MSM.