Citation

Seigfried-Spellar KC, Rogers MK. Cyberpsychol. Behav. Soc. Netw. 2010; 13(6): 629-635.

Affiliation

Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. kseigfri@purdue.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Mary Ann Liebert Publishers)

DOI

10.1089/cyber.2009.0212

PMID

21142987

Abstract

Limited research has attempted to identify and understand the personality characteristics of female consumers of Internet child pornography (ICP). In the current study, female respondents (N = 162) from the Seigfried et al. study were analyzed to determine if personality characteristics differed between female users (n = 10, 6.2%) and female non-users (n = 152, 93.8%) of ICP. An exploratory backward stepwise (Wald) logistic regression revealed a predictive model, with female ICP consumers scoring: low on neuroticism, high on moral choice hedonism, and self-reporting a non-white racial identity. The relationship between female ICP consumption, neuroticism, hedonism, and race are discussed, along with the study's limitations and future research suggestions in the area of computer deviance.

Language: en