The relationship of attachment styles, marital satisfaction and feeling of sex guilt with sexual desire in women

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Introduction: The aim of this study was to identify the relationship of attachment styles, marital satisfaction, and feeling of sex guilt with sexual desire in women. Method: Subjects were 192 married female students with the age range of 18-40 from University of Welfare Sciences and Rehabilitation, Tarbiat Modarres University and Islamic Azad University who participated in the present study by filling out the Adult Attachment Styles Index, ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire, Mosher Revised Sex-Guilt Inventory and Hurlbert Index of Sexual Desire. Method of sampling was multistage clustering. Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis methods were used to analyze the data. Results: Findings showed that there is significant relationship between sexual desire with secure attachment style (r=0.283, p

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