TABLE 5.

Influence of various demographics, including those associated with pornography use, and the emotional and sexual state variables on depression, anxiety and stress scores, measured using the DASS-21.

Variable		Depression			Anxiety			Stress
		β	P	Backward step of elimination	β	p	Backward step of elimination	β	P	Backward step of elimination
Age		−0.484	0.028	Not eliminated	–0.342	0.085	13	–0.023	0.913	5
Sex		−4.420	<0.001	Not eliminated	−4.068	<0.001	Not eliminated	−4.772	<0.001	Not eliminated
Semesters		–0.180	0.638	6	–0.016	0.962	2	–0.007	0.984	2
Shareroom		–1.643	0.141	11	0.321	0.753	3	–0.048	0.964	3
Lastviewed		1.866	<;0.001	Not eliminated	0.510	0.148	12	1.089	0.003	Not eliminated
Frequent		–0.037	0.927	1	–0.128	0.716	6	–0.225	0.547	7
Timeday		–0.716	0.405	9	–0.006	0.994	1	–0.821	0.308	10
AgeFirstExp		–1.020	0.124	12	−1.740	0.004	Not eliminated	−1.277	0.041	Not eliminated
Interoceptive	Alone	–0.233	0.740	4	–0.205	0.746	4	0.321	0.627	6
	Lonely	2.682	<0.001	Not eliminated	1.017	0.007	Not eliminated	1.905	<0.001	Not eliminated
	Bored	–0.389	0.398	10	0.159	0.710	5	0.440	0.305	12
	Aroused	0.380	0.427	8	0.858	0.035	Not eliminated	1.126	0.009	Not eliminated
Impotent	Nosex	–0.057	0.896	2	0.225	0.561	7	0.003	0.995	1
	Noonesex	0.714	0.058	13	–0.381	0.285	10	–0.404	0.272	11
Extrinsic	Sexpart	0.196	0.665	5	–0.204	0.618	8	–0.367	0.386	8
	Peerpres	0.347	0.467	7	0.429	0.304	11	0.384	0.390	9
	Drunk	–0.146	0.737	3	0.382	0.309	9	0.028	0.946	4
R2 for model		0.157			0.091			0.144

Effect sizes (β values) were obtained through backward stepwise regression analyses, as detailed in section “Materials and Methods.” Table shows the β value of each variable at the step in which it was eliminated from the model and the overall R² for each model.