Comparison of sexual deprivation in Iranian society and European-American society and its relationship with depression and achievement motivation

The aim of this study was to compare the rate of sexual deprivation in Iranian and European-American societies and its relationship with the rate of depression and achievement motivation. This research was applied and post-event comparative method.

For this purpose, 219 subjects aged 25 to 55 years, with upper secondary education levels, including 61 Iranian men and 51 women, and 50 men and 57 women from European-American countries, voluntarily answered the questionnaire. To measure the variable of "sexual deprivation" in the two research groups, the "ASSD" questionnaire was used to assess the severity of the factors that underlie sexual deprivation.

Comparison of the mean and standard deviation of the severity of the factors underlying sexual deprivation in the two groups showed that the severity of these factors and consequently the amount of deprivation in Iranian society is higher than the American-European community (p <0.01). Also, the results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that Iranian samples had higher scores in all components (significance level 0.001).

This type of deprivation is the product of archetypes and as a result of the unique Iranian culture. It has consequences in the insights and behaviors of the Iranian society and has nothing to do with the commands and values of Islam. The application of the findings of this study is to include the concepts obtained in long-term educational and cultural planning.