ISSN : 1229-0718
The major purpose of this study is to identify the impact of obscene published materials on adolescents' development, and to find related psychosocial factors. 647 male high school students were administerd by Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale, the Love Scale, the Sex-role Ideology Scale, and the Delinquency Scale. The subjects were classified as three (high-, intermediate-, and low-) exposed groups respectively, in accordance with the level of exposure to obscene publications. Results showed that high exposure group tended to prefer the 'eros' type of love and authoritarian sex-role ideology than their counterparts, as well as to show higher delinquent tendency. It was also found that the Sensation Seeking Scale and its subscales could serve as significant predicting factors about the impact of exposure to obscene materials.