Investigating the Factors Affecting Internet Sex Addiction | Chapter 8 | New Visions in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 9

 

Today, with the advancement of technology and the use of the internet on smartphones, private interactions of individuals with strangers in the virtual space take a harmful form regardless of location. Problematic use of the Internet is now a concerning area across the globe, referring to excessive engagement in online activities known to be associated with marked functional impairment. A significant portion of people's communications takes place on social networks and through cyber facilities. The debate on human dependence on technology and cyber facilities has reached a point where the use of these facilities has become an inseparable part of many people's lives, work, and relationships. The increasing use of cyber facilities and individuals' membership in online social networks and chat rooms, alongside easy access to relationships with strangers, sometimes leads to the emergence of cybersex relationships and conversations aimed at satisfying instinctual and sexual desires. In this chapter, after defining internet sex addiction, sexual identity, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), the relationship between internet sex addiction and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) in men is examined. The impact of these items on each other and diagnostic and treatment methods are explained. The present research is correlation-relation research in which inferential statistics were used. Sexual Addiction Screening-Test-Revised (SAST-R) was used as a research tool in which 45 yes or no questions were included. The test has a main part and two subscale groups. The results of this research show that the body dysmorphic disorder variable has a correlation of 66.6%, and 44.3% predicts the level of internet sex addiction. Finally, it is concluded that there is an indirect and significant correlation between Internet sex addiction and body image.

 

 

Author(s) Details:-

 

 

Mehrnaz Sheibani-Noqabi (Clinical Psychologist, Hypnotherapist and Researcher)
Mehrabani Counseling Center, Mashhad, Iran.

 

Mohamad Tolooe Arjomand (Doctor of Medicine, Clinical Psychologist, Hypnotherapist and Researcher
Mehrabani Counseling Center, Mashhad, Iran.

 

Please see the link here:-  https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/nvmms/v9/9098A

Testing the Influence of Socio-cultural Factors on Body Image Satisfaction among School Going Teenage Girls | Chapter 3 | Novel Research Aspects in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 5

 Objective of the following society based research search out test the influence of socio-cultural determinants on body figure issue among adolescent daughters in rural area as more worries and less delight about body concept are found in adolescents. The relatives, the publishing, the peers and the community all have an affect body shape vindication. But the greatest influence is that of the publishing and the community through standardising a “thin ideal” for female advantage.Body image is what one think and feel when individual look in the mirror or when individual picture oneself in mind. Body countenance issues with adolescents are a ordinary problem. These issues influence adolescent girls as well the boys. The prominence on thinness and on an ideal female carcass shape and size is concerning matter and psychologically disadvantageous to the health of many young wives. A cross-sectional study was administered in block Lakhanmajra, District Rohtak, Haryana. Adolescent girls in group of same status 13-19 years examining in class VIII to class XII in 10 government and private senior subordinate schools were included in the study. The total sample of 500 scholars was included in the study. The verdicts of the study show that 20.2% adolescent girls acted not like their appearance when they opportunity the mirror and thus had frame image unhappiness. 88.0% adolescent girls were quenched with their pressure and 12.0% were dissatisfied. 80.0% of the study cases who were unhappy with their frame weight had common age specific BMI principles. Only 20% of the adolescent girls the one were not satisfied accompanying their weight were thin or overweight.

Author(s) Details:

Vinay,
Department of Community Medicine, Pt. B. D. Sharma PGIMS Rohtak, Haryana, India.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/NRAMMS-V5/article/view/12163

Dissociation and Suicidality in Eating Disorders: Mediating and Moderating Factors| Chapter 6 | Current Innovations in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 10

 Elevated detachment may increase the risk of suicide in sufferers suffering from consuming disorders (EDs). The aims of the present study were: 1) To examine the friendship between dissociative symptoms and suicidality in female youngsters with EDs, and 2) To evaluate potential factors that would intervene in these connections including material-related disturbances, depression, tension, severity of ED symptoms, frame mass index (BMI), and type and event of the ED. The study included 172 inpatients: 65 with eating disorder restricting type, 60 with eating disorder binge/purge type, and 37 accompanying bulimia nervosa. Self-rating questionnaires were used to judge participants' levels of dissociation, suicidality, physique-related traits, severity of ED symptoms, concavity, and anxiety. Dissociation and suicidality were raise to be closely accompanying. Additionally, the mediating effect of body concept factors in the friendship between higher detachment and increased suicidality was modulated by despair and tension.  Thus, only in inpatients with extreme depression and anxiety, that is, above the median range, bulk image disturbances were found to intervene the association between separation and suicidality. These relationships were not restrained by ED-related parameters. Our verdicts show that in ED inpatients, increased dissociation is guide increased suicidality, two together directly and through the influence of body representation, depression, and anxiety. In order to confirm and extend the decisions of our model in a prospective longitudinal amount of ambulatory subjects with EDs over the course of their illness, future studies endure make an effort to incorporate dossier on actual destructive behaviours and trauma history.

Author(s) Details:

Yael Doreen Lewis,
Hadarim Eating Disorders Center, Shalvata Mental Health Center, Hod Hasharon - 4534708, Israel and Department of Psychiatry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv - 69978, Israel.

Shirley Kapon,
Beer-Yaacov and Ness Ziona Mental Health Center, Ness Ziona - 70350, Israel.

Adi Enoch-Levy,
Department of Psychiatry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv - 69978, Israel and Pediatric Psychosomatic Department, Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan - 52621, Israel.

Amit Yaroslavsky,
Pediatric Psychosomatic Department, Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan - 52621, Israel.

Eliezer Witztum,
Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva - 84101, Israel.

Daniel Stein,
Department of Psychiatry, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv - 69978, Israel and Pediatric Psychosomatic Department, Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan - 52621, Israel.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CIMMS-V10/article/view/8866