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Internet Pornography: The Effects on the Youth

Student’s Name: Talal Alrasheed

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Course: Psychology foundation

Date: 9/21/2016

Internet Pornography: The Effects on the Youth

Introduction

The field of psychology handles the mind and how human beings survive varied situations. The social and health life of anyone, therefore, is of a lot of significance in the field of psychology as determines almost every aspect of existence. In particular pornography is a matter of concern in the field. The emergence of IT has been appraised as very significant in transforming the world into a global village as well as a positive development that will help many users to advance in the economic, educational and world. This promise has put almost everyone in the full interest of exploring the internet .According to Chiemeke&Longe (2007), ICT penetration is on the increase. This has led to a lot of accessibility to healthy and unhealthy sites and literature by the youth in the society. Seemingly, institutions such as schools, colleges, universities and even home are where the majority of the youth are penetrating into the internet to watch pornographic data. With this online usage is quite vulnerable to harm the youth through exposure to sexually overt materials, grown-up predators, and peddlers of hate (Cooper, et. al, 2001). It has therefore turned out that internet pornography is moderately unsafe for a well-adjusted psychosocial growth and development as well as the relation in the society. This research will help establish particular effects so that parents, pornography users and other guiding and counseling individuals use them to change the youth.

Hypothesis

The research will be based on the hypothesis that pornography has a negative impact on the clinical/mental health, social life/aspects of the person who uses it as compared to those who do not use it. Moreover, another hypothesis will be that self-reported pornography addiction will be a predictor for those partakers who have revealing levels of downheartedness, apprehension, global relentlessness, impressiveness, and non-suicidal self-harming. The purpose of this study is to examine whether or not there exists co-morbidity between pornography addiction and mental health disorders as well as social disorders as compared to those who do not use it.

Prediction with operational definition

The term pornography will be used to mean the regulated, overt visual portrayals of bodies, sex organs and sexual action specifically intended to stimulate.

There shall be the need to explore a variety of internet pornographic usage namely; obscenity, erotica, online sexual behavior, cybersex, sexual addiction, and sexual compulsivity.

Youth will mean any female or male individual with the age of 12 -25.

The objectives will be:

1. To investigate how the level of exposure of the youth to Internet pornography can affect their mental health.

2. To investigate how the level of exposure of the youth to Internet pornography can affect their social health.

The research, therefore, will answer the questions:

1. Will individuals who currently view pornography considerably differ in mental health as compared to those who do not view it?

2. Will those persons who report higher levels of obsessive use suggestively differ from those individuals who said that they are not addicted to pornography in social health?

Methodology

The study will rely on the use of interviews and questionnaires among individual students, internet users of varied racial and gender definition who sought to counsel through health/school institutions paraprofessional counseling. Their ages will range from 12-25 as that is the age that carries a majority of the youth. This is aimed to come up with a qualitative and quantitative data of the people who watch pornographic material, the frequency, the level to which it affects their health, social life and them. Furthermore, some interviews and questionnaires will be sent to parents, teachers and church leaders of varied ages and perceptions. Moreover, there will be the usage of published secondary data in form of reviews so as to give detailed information about prior studies and the literature review.