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Rezaiee M, Athari Z. How do sexual satisfaction and attachment styles influence sexual arousal and sexual inhibition in couples?. aumj 2023; 12 (2) :204-215
URL: http://aums.abzums.ac.ir/article-1-1708-en.html
1- Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychological Sciences, Dept. of Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Education Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
2- PhD Student in Family Counseling, Dept. of Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Education Science, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
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Introducing: Your marriage can be influenced by human sexual activity, which is vital. Aim: Hence, the aim of this study was to examine how sexual satisfaction and attachment styles influence sexual arousal and sexual inhibition in couples.
Methods: The research method was descriptive - correlational. The statistical population included all married individuals of Bandar Abbas in 2016 year that 600 individuals were selected using random cluster sampling method. Sexual Excitation and Sexual Inhibition Inventory (SESII), Inventory of Sexual Satisfaction (ISS) and Experience in Close Relationship (ECR-R) were used for gathering data. Pearson correlation and multiple regression and SPSS-22 software were used for analyzing the data

Results: Pearson test results showed that there was a significant relationship between sexual excitation and sexual inhibition with sexual satisfaction and attachment styles (p< 0/05). Also regression analysis results showed that sexual satisfaction and attachment styles of anxiety and avoidance can explain together %77/3 of sexual excitation variance and %22/9 of sexual inhibition variance.

Conclusion: According to the findings this study, can suggested training and intervention on improving sexual satisfaction and attachment styles as an effective way on creasing sexual excitation and decreasing sexual inhibition.
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2021/01/07 | Accepted: 2022/02/24 | Published: 2023/05/31

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