The effects of state and trait self-focused attention on sexual arousal in sexually functional and dysfunctional women

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-532

  Meston, Cindy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Private self consciousness; Public self consciousness; Self focus; Sexual arousal; Spectatoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EROTISM; FEMALE; FILM; HUMAN; ORGASM; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEVISION;

ADULT; AROUSAL; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIBIDO; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 32344440850     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.03.009     Document Type: Article

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