Associations between Affect, Context, and Sexual Desire in Depressed Young Women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10211161
AutoresClare Mehta (0000-0003-4897-6160, Boston Children's Hospital, autor correspondente), Clare M Mehta (Boston Children's Hospital), Courtney Walls (Boston Children's Hospital), Emily Blood (0000-0003-4086-4578, Children's Hospital), Emily A Blood (Harvard Medical School), Lydia A Shrier (0000-0002-9648-9319, Boston Children's Hospital)
Ano2013
Volume51
Fascículo5
Páginas577-585
Data de publicação2013-04-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Sex Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-4499 • E-ISSN: 1559-8519
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00224499.2012.753026
PMID23631748
OpenAlexW2008663137
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas55

We investigated associations of sexual desire with time of day, physical and social context, and positive and negative affect using momentary sampling in 44 depressed young women (mean age = 18). Analyses revealed that depressed young women experienced sexual desire when with their boyfriends and later in the evening. Sexual desire was also positively associated with positive affect. Sexual desire was not associated with negative affect or physical context. This research suggests that sexual desire is experienced by depressed young women in normative developmental social contexts. Our findings may help clinicians and sexual health educators in correcting the myth that depressed women do not have sexual desire

Affect (linguistics · Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Evening · Human sexuality · Normative · Sexual desire · Social environment · Young adult · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Clinical Psychology · Gender Studies · Psychology · Sexual function and dysfunction studies · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology