caa a22 4500 477117554 CHVBK 20180405111626.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02437842 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02437842 Attitudes of U.S. and Czech/Slovak mental health and health professionals toward five types of sexually explicit materials [Elektronische Daten] [Beatrice Robinson, Karen Scheltema, Jan Koznar, Robin Manthei] Mental health and health professionals' attitudes toward sexually explicit materials in the U.S. and Czech/Slovak Republics were investigated. An instrument measuring attitudes toward educational, soft-core, hard-core, violence, and bizarre/paraphiliac sexually explicit materials was administered to sexologists, psychologist/counselors, and medical professionals. These professionals were attending conferences in the U.S. and the Czech/Slovak Republics between November 1992 and September 1993. Mental health and health professionals had the most favorable attitudes toward educational sexually explicit materials followed by soft-core and hard-core materials, respectively. They had unfavorable attitudes toward violent and bizarre/paraphiliac sexually explicit materials, with particularly negative attitudes toward violent materials. Analysis of covariance showed that strength of religious conviction was a significant covariate; thus professionals with stronger religious conviction had more negative attitudes toward all five types of sexually explicit materials. When controlling for strength of religious conviction: (i) sexologists had more positive attitudes toward most types of sexually explicit materials; (ii) Czech professionals generally had more positive attitudes toward such materials than their U.S. counterparts; and (iii) there were few differences between female and male professionals in their reported attitudes. While previous literature has reported gender differences in attitudes toward sexually explicit materials, findings from this study suggest that this effect may be due to differences in religiosity among women and men, namely, that women tend to be more religious. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1996 pornography nationallicence professionals' attitudes nationallicence sexually explicit materials nationallicence cross-cultural nationallicence Czech/Slovak nationallicence gender nationallicence Robinson Beatrice Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Family Practice and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, 55454, Minneapolis, Minnesota aut Scheltema Karen Department of Human Services, State of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota aut Koznar Jan Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic aut Manthei Robin North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 25/6(1996-12-01), 601-628 0004-0002 25:6<601 1996 25 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02437842 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02437842 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Robinson Beatrice Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Family Practice and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, 55454, Minneapolis, Minnesota aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Scheltema Karen Department of Human Services, State of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koznar Jan Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Manthei Robin North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 25/6(1996-12-01), 601-628 0004-0002 25:6<601 1996 25 10508 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer