Joshua B. Grubbs

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and validated a 26-item measure, the Religious and Spiritual Struggles (RSS) Scale, which assesses six domains of r/s struggle: negative emotion centered on beliefs about God or a perceived relationship with God, demonic (concern that the devil or evil spirits are attacking an individual or causing negative events), interpersonal, concern about negative experiences with religious people or institutions; interpersonal conflict around religious issues), moral (wrestling with attempts to follow moral principles; worry or guilt about perceived offenses by the self), doubt (feeling troubled

TL;DR: Porn-related problems—particularly feelings of addiction to pornography—may be, in many cases, better construed as functions of discrepancies—moral incongruence—between pornography-related beliefs and pornography- related behaviors.

TL;DR: It is indicated that religiosity and moral disapproval of pornography use were robust predictors of perceived addiction to Internet pornography while being unrelated to actual levels of use among pornography consumers.

TL;DR: The authors developed and refined a short 9-item measure of perceived addiction to Internet pornography, confirmed its structure in multiple samples, examined its relatedness to hypersexuality more broadly, and demonstrated that the notion of perceived addicts is very robustly related to various measures of psychological distress.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new instrument for assessing Internet pornography usage that could be effectively used in religious populations has been presented, and the instrument also offered initial analyses of the feelings of guilt and distress experienced by religious populations as a result of their Internet pornography consumption.