Intimacy, orgasm likelihood, and conflict predict sexual satisfaction in heterosexual male and female respondents
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Published on: March 5, 2020
R Vernon Haning1, Stephen L O'Keefe, Elizabeth J Randall
1Department of Psychology, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia 25303, USA. Haning2@Marshall.edu
Abstract:
Anonymous data provided by 417 female and 179 male sexually active heterosexual respondents showed that in long term sexual relationships, sexual satisfaction was positively correlated with two different intimacy variables, the respondent's orgasm likelihood, and negatively correlated with conflict in the relationship. Multiple linear regression permitted us to measure the effect sizes of these variables as predictors of sexual satisfaction. These findings have important implications for treatment of symptomatic couples.
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