Sexual Desire in Iranian Female University Students: Role of Marital Satisfaction and Sex Guilt
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Objective
To determine association between sexual desire and marital satisfaction and sex guilt among a sample of Iranian female university students. Methods
The data presented here were obtained from a total of 192 married Iranian female university students who were selected via a multi-cluster sampling method from universities of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Tarbiat Modarres, and Islamic Azad. The subjects'' sociodemographic data, marital satisfaction (using ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire), sex guilt (using Mosher Revised Sex-Guilt Inventory), and sexual desire (using Hurlbert Index of Sexual Desire) were gathered. Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis methods were used to analyse the data. Results
Findings showed there are significant relationships between sexual desire and marital satisfaction (r = 0.51, p < 0.01) and also between sexual desire and sex guilt (r = -0.44, p < 0.01). Also marital satisfaction and sex guilt were able to predict 31 percent of the variance of sexual desire. Conclusion
Marital satisfaction and sex guilt are two factors that significantly affect fluctuations in sexual desire of Iranian female university students.Keywords:
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English
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Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Volume:8 Issue: 4, Dec 2017
Pages:
64 to 69
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