Henning Georg, Segel-Karpas Dikla, Praetorius Björk Marcus, Bjälkebring Pär, Berg Anne Ingeborg
German Centre of Gerontology, Berlin, Germany.
Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Gerontologist. 2023 Feb 25;63(2):274-284. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnac102.
Although interest in sexuality in older age has increased over the last decades, few studies have focused on longitudinal change in sexual satisfaction around retirement age. In the present study, we studied change in sexual satisfaction across retirement in a sample of Swedish older adults with a partner.
Our analyses were based on n = 759 participants (359 male, 400 female) from the longitudinal Health, Aging, and Retirement Transitions in Sweden study. For this study, we used 5 waves spanning over a period of 4 years.
On average, sexual satisfaction did not change significantly before retirement, but decreased after retirement. Interestingly, women showed higher sexual satisfaction than men, as well as a more positive development of both pre- and postretirement sexual satisfaction. Individuals with higher relationship satisfaction had a higher sexual satisfaction until retirement, but their sexual satisfaction also decreased faster after retirement, whereas those with lower relationship satisfaction showed a stable but lower sexual satisfaction.
Sexual satisfaction can change in the retirement transition in several important ways and further studies on the impact of retirement and other late-life stage transitions are warranted.
尽管在过去几十年里，人们对老年人性行为的关注度有所提高，但很少有研究关注退休年龄前后性满意度的纵向变化。在本研究中，我们对瑞典有伴侣的老年人样本在退休期间的性满意度变化进行了研究。
我们的分析基于来自瑞典健康、衰老与退休纵向研究的n = 759名参与者（359名男性，400名女性）。在本研究中，我们使用了跨越4年的5次调查数据。
平均而言，性满意度在退休前没有显著变化，但在退休后有所下降。有趣的是，女性的性满意度高于男性，并且退休前后性满意度的发展更为积极。关系满意度较高的个体在退休前性满意度较高，但退休后性满意度下降得也更快，而关系满意度较低的个体性满意度虽稳定但较低。
性满意度在退休过渡期间可能会以多种重要方式发生变化，因此有必要进一步研究退休及其他晚年阶段过渡的影响。
