Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA.
J Sex Marital Ther. 2022;48(8):779-788. doi: 10.1080/0092623X.2022.2053017. Epub 2022 Mar 24.
The World Health Organization (WHO), defines sexual well-being as a multifaceted construct, consisting of more than absence of disease or experiences of pleasure. Further, the WHO suggests that sexual knowledge should contribute to sexual well-being. We examined the relationship between personal sexual knowledge-knowing one's individual sexual preferences-and sexual health knowledge-awareness of reproduction, contraception, and diseases-and sexual well-being, comprised of sexual satisfaction, assertiveness, and competence in a sample of 484 emerging adults. Personal sexual knowledge but not sexual health knowledge, was a significant predictor of sexual well-being. Further, this relationship was moderated by gender (stronger for women) but not prior sex education.
世界卫生组织（WHO）将性健康定义为一个多方面的概念，不仅仅是没有疾病或性愉悦体验，还包括性知识。进一步地，WHO 认为性知识应该有助于性健康。我们在一个包含 484 名成年初期人群的样本中，研究了个人性知识（了解个人的性偏好）和性健康知识（对生殖、避孕和疾病的认识）与性健康的关系，性健康由性满意度、自信和能力组成。个人性知识而不是性健康知识，是性健康的重要预测因素。此外，这种关系受到性别（对女性影响更大）的调节，但不受先前性教育的影响。
