The Etiological Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity, Sexual Distress, and Female Sexual Dysfunction Is Partly Genetically Moderated

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1887-1896

  Burri, Andrea ^a,b   Spector, Timothy ^a   Rahman, Qazi ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Female sexual dysfunction; Female sexual function index; FSD; Genetics; Sexual distress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DISTRESS SCALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL DISTRESS; STRESS;

EID: 84863512464     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02710.x     Document Type: Article

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