Cargando…

Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Related to Personality and Coping? An Exploratory Study

INTRODUCTION: Sexual disorders impact up to 43% of women. However, the relationship between sexual dysfunction and psychological variables such as personality traits and coping mechanisms is not well understood. AIM: To examine personality domains and coping strategies utilized by women with sexual...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Crisp, Catrina C, Vaccaro, Christine M, Pancholy, Apurva, Kleeman, Steve, Fellner, Angela N, Pauls, Rachel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25356290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sm2.16
_version_ 1782337851038367744
author Crisp, Catrina C
Vaccaro, Christine M
Pancholy, Apurva
Kleeman, Steve
Fellner, Angela N
Pauls, Rachel
author_facet Crisp, Catrina C
Vaccaro, Christine M
Pancholy, Apurva
Kleeman, Steve
Fellner, Angela N
Pauls, Rachel
author_sort Crisp, Catrina C
collection PubMed
description INTRODUCTION: Sexual disorders impact up to 43% of women. However, the relationship between sexual dysfunction and psychological variables such as personality traits and coping mechanisms is not well understood. AIM: To examine personality domains and coping strategies utilized by women with sexual dysfunction in a clinical sample. METHODS: Patients seeking care for female sexual dysfunction (FSD) from a sexual medicine specialist were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision codes. Packets containing informed consent, Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), Female Sexual Distress Scale-Revised (FSDS-R), Ten Item Personality Index (TIPI), and Brief COPE were mailed to subjects. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Correlations among FSFI, FSDS-R, TIPI, and Brief COPE. RESULTS: Of 79 eligible subjects, 50 (63.2%) returned completed questionnaires. The mean age was 40 years (standard deviation 14). Total FSFI and FSDS-R scores confirmed FSD. Correlations between the FSFI and TIPI illustrated trends with the domain of extraversion, suggesting better function in those exhibiting more of this trait (r = 0.285, P = 0.079). Similarly, FSDS-R scores correlated with openness to experience (r = −0.305, P = 0.037) and approached significance for extraversion (r = −0.258, P = 0.080), indicating lower distress in such personality types. When assessing the Brief COPE, use of emotional support, a positive coping strategy, correlated with better orgasm (r = 0.303, P = 0.048) and higher satisfaction (r = 0.331, P = 0.03). Finally, when evaluating TIPI with COPE scores, several significant associations were noted, establishing that personality may influence these adaptive behaviors. CONCLUSION: Many notable relationships between sexual function, personality, and coping are presented. These support a role for consideration of psychological variables when evaluating women presenting for sexual dysfunction. Crisp CC, Vaccaro CM, Pancholy A, Kleeman S, Fellner AN, and Pauls R. Is female sexual dysfunction related to personality and coping? An exploratory study. Sex Med 2013;1:69–75.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-4184500
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2013
publisher Blackwell Publishing Ltd
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-41845002014-10-29 Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Related to Personality and Coping? An Exploratory Study Crisp, Catrina C Vaccaro, Christine M Pancholy, Apurva Kleeman, Steve Fellner, Angela N Pauls, Rachel Sex Med Original Research—Women's Sexual Health INTRODUCTION: Sexual disorders impact up to 43% of women. However, the relationship between sexual dysfunction and psychological variables such as personality traits and coping mechanisms is not well understood. AIM: To examine personality domains and coping strategies utilized by women with sexual dysfunction in a clinical sample. METHODS: Patients seeking care for female sexual dysfunction (FSD) from a sexual medicine specialist were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision codes. Packets containing informed consent, Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), Female Sexual Distress Scale-Revised (FSDS-R), Ten Item Personality Index (TIPI), and Brief COPE were mailed to subjects. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Correlations among FSFI, FSDS-R, TIPI, and Brief COPE. RESULTS: Of 79 eligible subjects, 50 (63.2%) returned completed questionnaires. The mean age was 40 years (standard deviation 14). Total FSFI and FSDS-R scores confirmed FSD. Correlations between the FSFI and TIPI illustrated trends with the domain of extraversion, suggesting better function in those exhibiting more of this trait (r = 0.285, P = 0.079). Similarly, FSDS-R scores correlated with openness to experience (r = −0.305, P = 0.037) and approached significance for extraversion (r = −0.258, P = 0.080), indicating lower distress in such personality types. When assessing the Brief COPE, use of emotional support, a positive coping strategy, correlated with better orgasm (r = 0.303, P = 0.048) and higher satisfaction (r = 0.331, P = 0.03). Finally, when evaluating TIPI with COPE scores, several significant associations were noted, establishing that personality may influence these adaptive behaviors. CONCLUSION: Many notable relationships between sexual function, personality, and coping are presented. These support a role for consideration of psychological variables when evaluating women presenting for sexual dysfunction. Crisp CC, Vaccaro CM, Pancholy A, Kleeman S, Fellner AN, and Pauls R. Is female sexual dysfunction related to personality and coping? An exploratory study. Sex Med 2013;1:69–75. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013-12 2013-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4184500/ /pubmed/25356290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sm2.16 Text en © 2013 The Authors. Sexual Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Sexual Medicine. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
spellingShingle Original Research—Women's Sexual Health
Crisp, Catrina C
Vaccaro, Christine M
Pancholy, Apurva
Kleeman, Steve
Fellner, Angela N
Pauls, Rachel
Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Related to Personality and Coping? An Exploratory Study
title Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Related to Personality and Coping? An Exploratory Study
title_full Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Related to Personality and Coping? An Exploratory Study
title_fullStr Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Related to Personality and Coping? An Exploratory Study
title_full_unstemmed Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Related to Personality and Coping? An Exploratory Study
title_short Is Female Sexual Dysfunction Related to Personality and Coping? An Exploratory Study
title_sort is female sexual dysfunction related to personality and coping? an exploratory study
topic Original Research—Women's Sexual Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25356290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sm2.16
work_keys_str_mv AT crispcatrinac isfemalesexualdysfunctionrelatedtopersonalityandcopinganexploratorystudy
AT vaccarochristinem isfemalesexualdysfunctionrelatedtopersonalityandcopinganexploratorystudy
AT pancholyapurva isfemalesexualdysfunctionrelatedtopersonalityandcopinganexploratorystudy
AT kleemansteve isfemalesexualdysfunctionrelatedtopersonalityandcopinganexploratorystudy
AT fellnerangelan isfemalesexualdysfunctionrelatedtopersonalityandcopinganexploratorystudy
AT paulsrachel isfemalesexualdysfunctionrelatedtopersonalityandcopinganexploratorystudy