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Primeiro confinamento devido à COVID-19: Alterações nos comportamentos de adicção às redes sociais e no funcionamento sexual
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A pandemia de Covid-19 trouxe uma série de novos desafios e consequências para a
saúde mental. Este período obrigou os sujeitos a entrarem em confinamento e alterou o dia a
dia de toda a população, inclusive em Portugal. Os objetivos deste estudo são avaliar de que
forma o primeiro confinamento devido à Covid-19 influenciou o funcionamento sexual e a
adicção às redes sociais e examinar a correlação entre as alterações no funcionamento sexual e
na adicção às redes sociais. A amostra deste estudo foi composta por 771 participantes (631
mulheres e 140 homens). Utilizaram-se as seguintes medidas com o formato de resposta
adaptado para detetar alterações em relação ao período pré-confinamento: Escala de Isolamento
Social (PROMIS), Internet Addiction Test (IAT) adaptado às redes sociais, Female Sexual
Function Index (FSFI), Female Sexual Distress Scale – Revised (FSDS-R) e o International
Index of Erectile Function (IIEF). Para ambos os sexos, encontrou-se uma correlação entre
agravamento da adicção às redes sociais, por um lado e agravamento do distress sexual e pioria
do funcionamento sexual, por outro. O agravamento da adicção às redes sociais correlacionouse com aumento da frequência de visualização de pornografia e de cibersexo para ambos. No
grupo masculino, a frequência de masturbação a sós, visualização de pornografia e desejo de
masturbação aumentou, enquanto o contrário aconteceu para o grupo feminino. De um modo
geral, para homens e mulheres, a função sexual melhorou, o desejo de ter relações sexuais
aumentou, os sentimentos de solidão aumentaram e a adicção às redes sociais diminuiu.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a series of new challenges and consequences for mental health. This period forced the subjects to go into lockdown and changed the daily life of the entire population, including Portugal. The aims of this study are to assess how the first lockdown due to Covid-19 influenced sexual functioning and social media addiction and to examine the correlation between changes in sexual functioning and social media addiction. The sample of this study consisted of 771 participants (631 women and 140 men). The following measures with the adapted response format were used to detect changes in relation to the preconfinement period: Social Isolation Scale (PROMIS), Internet Addiction Test (IAT) adapted to social networks, Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), Female Sexual Distress Scale – Revised (FSDS-R) and the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF). For both sexes, a correlation was found between worsening addiction to social networks, on the one hand, and worsening sexual distress and worsening sexual functioning, on the other. The worsening of addiction to social networks was correlated with an increase in the frequency of viewing pornography and cybersex for both. In the male group, the frequency of solo masturbation, viewing pornography and desire for masturbation increased, while the opposite happened for the female group. Overall, for both men and women, sexual function improved, the desire to have sex increased, feelings of loneliness increased, and addiction to social media decreased.
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a series of new challenges and consequences for mental health. This period forced the subjects to go into lockdown and changed the daily life of the entire population, including Portugal. The aims of this study are to assess how the first lockdown due to Covid-19 influenced sexual functioning and social media addiction and to examine the correlation between changes in sexual functioning and social media addiction. The sample of this study consisted of 771 participants (631 women and 140 men). The following measures with the adapted response format were used to detect changes in relation to the preconfinement period: Social Isolation Scale (PROMIS), Internet Addiction Test (IAT) adapted to social networks, Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), Female Sexual Distress Scale – Revised (FSDS-R) and the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF). For both sexes, a correlation was found between worsening addiction to social networks, on the one hand, and worsening sexual distress and worsening sexual functioning, on the other. The worsening of addiction to social networks was correlated with an increase in the frequency of viewing pornography and cybersex for both. In the male group, the frequency of solo masturbation, viewing pornography and desire for masturbation increased, while the opposite happened for the female group. Overall, for both men and women, sexual function improved, the desire to have sex increased, feelings of loneliness increased, and addiction to social media decreased.
Description
Dissertação de Mestrado apresentada no Ispa
– Instituto Universitário para a obtenção de grau de Mestre
na especialidade de Psicologia Clínica.
Keywords
Confinamento Comportamentos de adicção Redes sociais Funcionamento sexual