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June 6, 2026The Journal of Sexual Medicine

(776) Personality Traits, Emotion Dysregulation, and Sexual Fantasies: An Observational Study on the Psychological Correlates of Erotic Imagination

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TGT GianniniFCF CavalloSMS Mantuano

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Overview

Observational study examines how personality traits and emotion dysregulation influence sexual fantasies, suggesting insights into erotic imagination.

Key Points

  • The study investigates how maladaptive personality traits and emotion dysregulation affect the content of sexual fantasies.
  • Cross-sectional design involving 414 participants aged 18–51 years.
  • Participants completed self-report measures on personality traits, emotion regulation, and sexual fantasies.
  • Data analysis employed Spearman correlations, multiple regressions, and mediation analyses.
  • Emotion dysregulation positively correlates with sexual fantasy themes like Dominance/Submission and Paraphilia.
  • Psychoticism predicts Dominance/Submission and Transgressive fantasies more robustly than other traits.
  • Awareness mediates the relationship between Negative Affectivity and Romantic fantasies.

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Giannini et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a23bafd71a5da9775e768b6https://doi.org/10.1093/jsxmed/qdag118.676
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