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Schemas, sexuality, and romantic attachment

J M Cyranowski¹, B L Andersen

¹Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. jcyranow+@pitt.edu

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

|May 26, 1998

Summary

This study reveals how women’s sexual self-views impact their sexual responses and romantic attachments. Understanding these sexual self-schemas (SSS) helps explain variations in desire, arousal, and attachment patterns.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Social Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Self-views significantly influence cognitive processing and behavior.
Sexual self-schemas are cognitive generalizations about the self related to sexuality.
The bivariate sexual self-schema model proposes independent positive and negative components of sexual self-views.

Purpose of the Study:

To test the bivariate sexual self-schema model in women.
To examine the relationship between sexual self-schemas and sexual responses.
To investigate the connection between sexual self-schemas and romantic attachment patterns.

Main Methods:

Survey methodology with 318 female undergraduates.
Utilized the Sexual Self-Schema Scale (SSS).
Assessed sexual responses and romantic attachment patterns.

Main Results:

Differentiated response patterns between aschematic (low desire, arousal, anxiety, weak attachment) and co-schematic (conflicting responses) groups.
Path analyses supported the bivariate sexual self-schema model.
Findings align with attachment theories within the self's cognitive hierarchy.

Conclusions:

The bivariate model effectively explains women's sexual self-views.
Sexual self-schemas are linked to distinct patterns of sexual response and attachment.
Further research can integrate these findings with attachment representation theories.

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