TY - JOUR
T1 - The Interplay of Worry and Relationship Satisfaction to Understand Sexual Distress
T2 - An APIM Study with Heterosexual Couples Using Cross-Sectional Data
AU - Martins, Edna M.
AU - Pascoal, Patrícia M.
AU - Manão, Andreia A.
AU - Rosa, Pedro J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2024/8/26
Y1 - 2024/8/26
N2 - The current study takes an integrative approach, considering individual transdiagnostic processes and relationship outcomes. It assumes an interdependence approach and aims to test a dyadic model to analyze the impact of worry and relationship satisfaction on heterosexual couples’ sexual distress, an essential factor for diagnosing sexual dysfunction. The current study recruited 103 couples from the community to complete an online survey containing the Female Sexual Distress Scale–Revised, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire–Abbreviated, and the Global Measure of Relationship Satisfaction. The results show that women’s and men’s worries are associated with their own sexual distress, and men’s relationship satisfaction has an effect on their own and their partner’s sexual distress. These results highlight the critical role of cognitive processes in shaping the experience of sexual distress and reinforce the importance of taking an integrative perspective that considers relationship (satisfaction), individual (worry) and social factors (gender) in interventions to treat sexual distress.
AB - The current study takes an integrative approach, considering individual transdiagnostic processes and relationship outcomes. It assumes an interdependence approach and aims to test a dyadic model to analyze the impact of worry and relationship satisfaction on heterosexual couples’ sexual distress, an essential factor for diagnosing sexual dysfunction. The current study recruited 103 couples from the community to complete an online survey containing the Female Sexual Distress Scale–Revised, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire–Abbreviated, and the Global Measure of Relationship Satisfaction. The results show that women’s and men’s worries are associated with their own sexual distress, and men’s relationship satisfaction has an effect on their own and their partner’s sexual distress. These results highlight the critical role of cognitive processes in shaping the experience of sexual distress and reinforce the importance of taking an integrative perspective that considers relationship (satisfaction), individual (worry) and social factors (gender) in interventions to treat sexual distress.
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U2 - 10.1080/0092623x.2024.2391390
DO - 10.1080/0092623x.2024.2391390
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85202069048
SN - 0092-623X
VL - 50
SP - 878
EP - 893
JO - Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
JF - Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
IS - 7
ER -