The effects of self-focused attention, performance demand, and dispositional sexual self-consciousness on sexual arousal of sexually functional and dysfunctional men

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 915-935

  Van Lankveld, Jacques J D M ^a   Van Den Hout, Marcel A ^a   Schouten, Erik G W ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Self focus, Self consciousness, Performance demand; Sexual arousal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOGENIC IMPOTENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PENILE INDURATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 2642524343     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2003.07.011     Document Type: Article

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