Mindfulness, Emotional Dysregulation, Impulsivity, and Stress Proneness Among Hypersexual Patients: Mindfulness and Hypersexuality
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OBJECTIVE: The current study explores relationships between mindfulness, emotional regulation, impulsivity, and stress proneness in a sample of participants recruited in a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder Fifth Edition Field Trial for Hypersexual Disorder and healthy controls to assess whether mindfulness attenuates symptoms of hypersexuality. METHOD: Hierarchal regression analysis was used to assess whether significant relationships between mindfulness and hypersexuality exist beyond associations commonly found with emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and stress proneness in a sample of male hypersexual patients (n = 40) and control subjects (n = 30). RESULTS: Our results show a robust inverse relationship of mindfulness to hypersexuality over and above associations with emotional regulation, impulsivity, and stress proneness. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that mindfulness may be a meaningful component of successful therapy among patients seeking help for hypersexual behavior in attenuating hypersexuality, improving affect regulation, stress coping, and increasing tolerance for desires to act on maladaptive sexual urges and impulses.
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In men seeking treatment for compulsive sexual behavior, dispositional mindfulness was inversely related to CSB after accounting for impulsivity, emotion regulation, and stress proneness.
“Using cross-sectional data collected from men seeking treatment for CSB, Reid, Bramen, Anderson, and Cohen (2014) reported that dispositional mindfulness inversely related to CSB above and beyond impulsivity, emotion regulation, and stress proneness.”
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- Authors
- Reid, R. C., Bramen, J. E., Anderson, A., & Cohen, M. S.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Reid, Rory C.
- Venue
- Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-07-12
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 313-321
- ISSN
- 0021-9762 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2142101370
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Clinical Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Keywords
- mindfulness, hypersexual disorder, hypersexuality, emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, sexual urges, stress coping, sexual behavior disorders, male patients
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Anxiety, Depression, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Male, Middle Aged, Personality, Stress, Psychological, Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological, Young Adult, Mindfulness
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