Effects of depressive symptoms and experimentally adopted schemas on sexual arousal and affect in sexually healthy women

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 163-177

  Kuffel, Stephanie W ^a   Heiman, Julia R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Female sexual arousal; Mood; Sexual schema

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIBIDO; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGASM; PAIN; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; DEPRESSION; EROTICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VAGINA;

EID: 33745045499     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-005-9015-1     Document Type: Article

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