The interrelationships between sexual self-esteem, sexual assertiveness and sexual satisfaction

Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 35-45

  Ménard, A Dana ^a,c   Offman, Alia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX SEXUAL SATISFACTION; MALE; ORGASM; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL ASSERTIVENESS SCALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SEXUALITY;

EID: 67651249909     PISSN: 11884517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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