Properties of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-18) in community and subclinical samples in China and Hungary

Lijun Chen; Xiaohui Luo; Beáta Bőthe; Xiaoliu Jiang; Zsolt Demetrovics; Marc N Potenza

doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106591

Properties of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-18) in community and subclinical samples in China and Hungary

Addict Behav. 2021 Jan:112:106591. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106591. Epub 2020 Jul 31.

Authors

Lijun Chen¹, Xiaohui Luo², Beáta Bőthe³, Xiaoliu Jiang², Zsolt Demetrovics⁴, Marc N Potenza⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fuzhou University, Fujian, China; Faculty of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. Electronic address: t05097@fzu.edu.cn.
² Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fuzhou University, Fujian, China.
³ Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada. Electronic address: beata.bothe@umontreal.ca.
⁴ Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
⁵ Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT, USA; Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, Wethersfield, CT, USA.

PMID: 32768797
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106591

Abstract

Several scales assessing problematic pornography use (PPU) are available. However, in most previous studies, primarily nonclinical and Western samples were used to validate these scales. Thus, further research is needed to validate scales to assess problematic pornography use across diverse samples, including subclinical populations. The aim of the present study was to examine and compare the psychometric properties of the PPCS-18 in Hungarian and Chinese community samples and in subclinical men. A sample of Chinese community men (N1 = 695), a sample of subclinical men who were screened for PPU using the Brief Pornography Screen (N2 = 4651), and a sample of Hungarian community men (N3 = 9395) were recruited to investigate the reliability and validity of the PPCS-18. Item-total score correlation, confirmatory factor analyses, reliability, and measurement invariance tests showed that the PPCS-18 yielded strong psychometric properties among Hungarian and Chinese community men and indicated potential utility in the subclinical men. The network analytic approach also corroborates that the six factors of the PPCS-18 can reflect the characteristic of the participants from different cultural contexts, and participants from community and subclinical populations. In sum, the PPCS-18 demonstrated high generalizability across cultures and community and subclinical men.

Keywords: Cultural context; Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale; Problematic pornography use; Screening; Validity.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

China
Erotica*
Humans
Hungary
Male
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results