Journal article

Publication year: 2003

Pages: 1765-1782

Journal: Personality and Individual Differences

Volume number: 35

Issue number: 8

ISSN: 0191-8869

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00405-1

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
The study tries to relate two approaches often discussed in the context of aggression and violence in combination with sexual arousal, the reciprocal inhibition theory (Wolpe, 1958) and an approach from personality psychology which emphasizes the psychoticism dimension (P) according to Eysenck and Eysenck (1975) as a mediator of violent sexual offence. The effects of preexposure to a violent vs. neutral movie on sexual reactivity to violent and non-violent sexual stimuli (audioplays and pictures) was studied in a male student population (N = 64). Sexual reactivity was measured by self-ratings, inspection time and electrodermal activity. Results could not confirm reciprocal inhibition theory but revealed that sexual reactivity for subjects scoring high vs. low on the psychoticism/aggressiveness dimension were differently affected by preexposure to violence. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Reuter, M., Netter, P. and Janke, W. (2003) Personality and reciprocal inhibition theory: The link between aggression and sexual reactivity, Personality and Individual Differences, 35(8), pp. 1765-1782. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00405-1

APA Citation style: Reuter, M., Netter, P., & Janke, W. (2003). Personality and reciprocal inhibition theory: The link between aggression and sexual reactivity. Personality and Individual Differences. 35(8), 1765-1782. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00405-1