Research Proposal

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PSY105
Introduction to Quantitative Methods I
Semester 2
Mr. TamilSelvan Ramis
Research Proposal
Teoh Kwan Kei
B2000663

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Literature Review and Research Gap
Online pornography use has become one of the popular internet usages by people
today in this modern days, as it may develop an individual addictive behavior in porn. A
person who had high consumption in online pornography has a potential to develop
Problematic Online Pornography Use (POPU), a subtype of hypersexual disorder that
develop among individuals who had high consumption in pornography according to (de
Alarcón et al., 2019).
As the pornography content is getting widespread on internet, every individual who
has accessibility to internet is having high risk to exposure in pornography including youth
who is underage and restricted to view pornography content (Wallmyr & Welin, 2006). The
past study also indicates that Female and male have different reason on consumption in
pornography as male view pornography for fulfil their arousal and to masturbate on it
however female view pornography for their curiosity on pornography (Wallmyr & Welin,
2006).
Beside their reason in consuming porn, past study also indicates that female
adolescents’ lifestyle and sexual health can be influenced by their porn consumption which
they have poorer lifestyle and sexual health compare to non-consumer (Mattebo et al., 2016).
The male adolescent might be slightly different to female as almost as frequent users suffer
unhealthy lifestyle the non-frequent user (Mattebo et al., 2016). These studies indicate that
the consumption of pornography for male and female adolescents are different between these
two genders.
From the Literature review, new study can be conduct by using the combination of
reasons, frequency, effects to compare youths or adolescents according to their gender to test

Running Head: Research Proposal
whether there is different in porn consumption between both genders and which gender have
higher risk in having porn addiction.
Research Question
Is there a difference in risk of pornography addiction between female adolesecents and male
adolescents?
Theoretical and Practical Implications
Theoretical Implication
As the study provide there is a difference in pornography between male adolescents
and female adolescents, Furthermore, study can provide a clear insight about adolescent’s
thought and behaviour towards pornography content.
Pratical Implication
If it has found male adolescents have higher porn addiction than female adolescents,
then all we can do is provide therapy programme for the adolescents to treat their addiction
such as Group therapy (Orzack et al., 2006), Individual session of Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy (ACT) (Twohig & Crosby, 2010) or Online recovery program (based
on a cognitive behavioral therapy approach) (Hardy et al., 2010).
Theoretical Framework
As Internet has become a common technology that use by humans, pornography can
be widespread by the internet as the accessibility is getting easier which online pornography
can be viewed anytime and anywhere (Wood, 2011). Adolescents will be interest in these
contents and will become excessive and addictive in pornography (Tsitsika et al., 2009;
Ybarra & Mitchell, 2005).

Running Head: Research Proposal
As high consumption of pornography may lead to higher risk of pornography
addiction (de Alarcón et al., 2019). These may be cause by their reason in porn consumption
where mostly male consume for arousal and masturbate and mostly women consume it due to
curiosity (Wallmyr & Welin, 2006). Due to their different reason in porn consumption
between these two genders, it can believe that their reason might lead to different risk of porn
addiction between both genders. Past study indicates that individuals who use pornography
content for arousal tend to produce supernormal stimulus towards pornography contents
which makes pursue or seek for more pornography to trigger their arousal and masturbating
for faster orgasm (Hilton, 2013). Individuals who use pornography due to their curiosity due
to their age in development such as adolescents in middle age are more interested in sexual
relationship (Waterman & Allen, 2019). Curiosity in pornography found to be less effective
than individuals who use porn for arousal due to some individuals might out of curiosity after
several times of consumption (Attwood et al., 2018).
Base on the theoretical framework above, it can hypothesize that male adolescents
have high risk of pornography addiction than female adolescents.
Hypothesis
Male adolescents have higher risk of pornography addiction than female adolescents.
Design
Ex Post Facto Design. The subject variable is gender of the adolescents. The level of subject
variables is female adolescents and male adolescents. The dependent variable will be risk of
porn addiction.
Variables
Conceptual Definition