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Finding the Love Guru in You

Examining the Effectiveness of a Sexual Communication Training Program for Married Couples

Bibliographic Data

ID11220186
AuthorsJennifer G Rosier (0000-0002-6703-5529, James Madison University, corresponding author), James M Tyler, James Tyler (0000-0001-6204-4912, Purdue University West Lafayette)
Year2017
Volume53
Issue1
Pages65-87
Publication date2017-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMarriage & Family Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0149-4929 • E-ISSN: 1540-9635
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01494929.2016.1177629
OpenAlexW2340426733
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited37

One specific area of communication that has the potential to elicit a wide range of outcomes, such as enhancing a couple's feelings of intimacy, offending one or both partners causing conflict, improving the communication climate within the relationship, or embarrassing the partners involved, is the discussion of sex. The current project theorized how to initiate and maintain sexual coaching conversations, taught participants the components of skillful and unskillful messages in an online training program, and then evaluated the overall effectiveness of said program. Forty couples participated in an online sexual coaching training program and completed several pretest and posttest measures. Results reveal that participation in the training program led to an increase in sexual and relationship satisfaction, a decrease in sexual communication apprehension, and an increase in sexual coaching knowledge and skill. These results, along with the value of interventive research and the implications of this training program, are discussed

Apprehension · Coaching · Feeling · Psychotherapist · Training (meteorology · Applied Psychology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,5
Citation span2018 - 2024 (7)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4
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