Date of Award:
5-2009
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Family, Consumer, and Human Development
Committee Chair(s)
D Kim Openshaw
Committee
D Kim Openshaw
Committee
Thomas R. Lee
Committee
V. William Harris
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between women's sexual desire and their reported level of sexual satisfaction. This study evaluated biological, psychological, and social factors of desire that might influence satisfaction. The sample for this study consisted of 77 Caucasian individuals, 45 women and 32 men, in their first marriage, who had been married on average 2 years. Results indicated that sexual desire was positively and significantly correlated with sexual satisfaction and that psychological and social factors most strongly explain women's sexual satisfaction. Further, women's perceptions of their own sexual desire, psychological and social, were more strongly associated with sexual satisfaction than their husband's perception of their desire, biological, psychological, or social.
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Recommended Citation
Chartier, Katherine J., "Evaluating the Relationship between Women's Sexual Desire and Satisfaction from a Biopsychosocial Perspective" (2009). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 438.
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