Frequency of use, moral incongruence and religiosity and their relationships with self‐perceived addiction to pornography, internet use, social networking and online gaming.
Background and Aims: Moral incongruence involves disapproval of a behavior in which people engage despite their moral beliefs. Although considerable research has been conducted on how moral incongruence relates to pornography use, potential roles for moral incongruence in other putative behavioral a...
| Published in: | Addiction Vol. 116; no. 4; pp. 889 - 900 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2021
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