Being sexually aroused can lead to a stronger propensity to engage in sexual risk-taking and sexually coercive behaviors possibly by narrowing attentional focus toward immediate gratification rather than long-term consequences. The goal of this paper was to investigate the attentional processes implicated in sexual self-regulation failure and its moderating factors, namely having a stronger sensitivity to sexual cues (dual control model) or being less able to implement behavioral intentions (action control theory) following a first effortful task. A total of 82 young adult heterosexual men completed a Dot Probe task to assess their attentional bias toward sexual stimuli. Effortful control was manipulated using a Stroop task. Regardless of conditions, higher sexual excitability was predictive of a stronger attentional bias toward sexual cues, while higher inhibition due to threat of performance failure was predictive of a lower bias for such cues. In the experimental condition, action-oriented individuals were able to negate this attentional bias by staying more focused on the task, while state-oriented participants showed higher orientation toward the sexual cues and thus a higher bias. These results suggest that both higher-order processes, like intention implementation, and lower-order processes, like sexual inhibition and excitation systems, are the key to regulation failure.

通过将注意力集中在眼前的满足而不是长期的后果上，被性唤起可能会导致更倾向于从事性冒险和性胁迫行为。本文的目的是研究与性自我调节失败有关的注意力过程及其调节因素，即对性暗示具有更强的敏感性（双重控制模型）或不太能够实现行为意图（行动控制理论）第一个艰巨的任务。共有 82 名年轻的成年异性恋男性完成了一项 Dot Probe 任务，以评估他们对性刺激的注意力偏见。使用 Stroop 任务进行有效控制。无论条件如何，较高的性兴奋性预示着对性暗示的注意力偏向更强，而由于表现失败的威胁而导致的较高抑制预示着对此类线索的偏见较低。在实验条件下，以行动为导向的个体能够通过更加专注于任务来消除这种注意力偏差，而以状态为导向的参与者则对性暗示表现出更高的取向，从而产生更高的偏见。这些结果表明，高阶过程（如意图实现）和低阶过程（如性抑制和兴奋系统）都是调节失败的关键。而以国家为导向的参与者对性暗示表现出更高的倾向，因此有更高的偏见。这些结果表明，高阶过程（如意图实现）和低阶过程（如性抑制和兴奋系统）都是调节失败的关键。而以国家为导向的参与者对性暗示表现出更高的倾向，因此有更高的偏见。这些结果表明，高阶过程（如意图实现）和低阶过程（如性抑制和兴奋系统）都是调节失败的关键。