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Title: | Negative Affect and Somatically Focused Anxiety in Young Women Reporting Pain With Intercourse | Contributor(s): | Meana, Marta (author); Lykins, Amy (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | DOI: | 10.1080/00224490802624422 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7989 | Abstract: | After a long history of privileging psychosexual etiological factors over pain and physiological processes, dyspareunia has enjoyed 1 decade of pointed research focused on the presenting problem of pain. Although it is generally acknowledged that certain affective and cognitive styles may play a role in an individual's experience of pain in general, investigations into these questions specifically as they pertain to pain that occurs during sex are relatively scarce. To add to this growing body of knowledge, 759 women aged 18 to 29 completed questionnaires about current sexual functioning, gynecologic history, expectations about intercourse, and various personality and health-related anxiety measures. One-hundred-one women (14% of the sample) reported pain during intercourse on at least 50% of attempts. This group of women significantly differed from 536 women reporting pain on less than 10% of intercourse attempts on personality constructs related to emotional and relational well-being (e.g., neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness), as well as anxiety sensitivity, anxiety related to physical health concerns, and the amplification of somatosensory experiences. This affective and cognitive profile is consistent with previous studies that have found an attentional hypervigilance to health and pain-related information in women with dyspareunia, all of which could prove germane to cognitive-behavioral treatments targeting this disorder. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Sex Research, 46(1), p. 80-88 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1559-8519 0022-4499 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170106 Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology 170105 Gender Psychology |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 920209 Mental Health Services | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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