Rye B J
Department of Psychology, St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo, 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G3, Canada.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2023 Jun 16;13(6):505. doi: 10.3390/bs13060505.
A sample of emerging adult university students completed a survey with the goal of investigating components of "the sexual self" and how these constructs were influenced by romantic relationship status. Three general aspects of the sexual self were considered: sexual self-concept, comfort with sexuality, and past sexual behavior. Sexual self-concept was defined as composed of constructs such as sexual self-schema, self-efficacy, consciousness, optimism, problem self-blame, power/other control, and motivation to avoid risky sex. Sexual comfort, conceptualized as a personality disposition of erotophobia-erotophilia, was assessed using three instruments. This included the Sexual Opinion Survey, the original individual difference measure of erotophobia-erotophilia. Past sexual behavior was assessed with the Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory. Findings suggested that individuals in a relationship had more positive sexual self-concepts and were more erotophilic and comfortable with sexuality generally. These differences were modest, based on effect size statistics. Past sexual experience also differed, contingent on relationship status. Some sexual self-concept scales were predictive of sexual satisfaction, while comfort with sexuality was predictive of relational satisfaction. Romantic relationships may have important implications for sexual selfhood, but this is a tentative suggestion, as this was a correlational study and the relationships are likely bidirectional.
一群新兴成年大学生完成了一项调查，目的是探究“性自我”的组成部分，以及这些概念是如何受到恋爱关系状态影响的。性自我的三个总体方面被纳入考量：性自我概念、对性的舒适度以及过去的性行为。性自我概念被定义为由诸如性自我图式、自我效能感、意识、乐观主义、问题自责、权力/他人控制以及避免危险性行为的动机等概念构成。性舒适度被概念化为性恐惧 - 性偏好的一种人格倾向，通过三种工具进行评估。这包括性观念调查，这是性恐惧 - 性偏好最初的个体差异测量工具。过去的性行为通过德罗加蒂斯性功能量表进行评估。研究结果表明，处于恋爱关系中的个体通常具有更积极的性自我概念，并且在性方面更具性偏好且更自在。基于效应量统计，这些差异较小。过去的性经历也因恋爱关系状态而异。一些性自我概念量表能够预测性满意度，而对性的舒适度能够预测关系满意度。恋爱关系可能对性自我具有重要影响，但这只是一个初步的建议，因为这是一项相关性研究，而且这些关系可能是双向的。
