Do romantic partners' responses to entry dyspareunia affect women's experience of pain? The roles of catastrophizing and self-efficacy

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2274-2284

  Lemieux, Ashley J ^a   Bergeron, Sophie ^b   Steben, Marc ^c   Lambert, Bernard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catastrophizing; Couple Therapy; Dyspareunia; Pain; Partner; Provoked Vestibulodynia; Self Efficacy; Sexual Function; Sexual Pain; Sexual Satisfaction; Vestibulitis; Vulvodynia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; CATASTROPHIZING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL FUNCTION INDEX; GLOBAL MEASURE OF SEXUAL SATISFACTION SCALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN CATASTROPHIZING SCALE; PAIN INTENSITY; PAIN PARAMETERS; PAINFUL INTERCOURSE SELF EFFICACY SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL SATISFACTION;

CATASTROPHIZING; COUPLE THERAPY; DYSPAREUNIA; PAIN; PARTNER; PROVOKED VESTIBULODYNIA; SELF-EFFICACY; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL PAIN; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; VESTIBULITIS; VULVODYNIA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CATASTROPHIZATION; COGNITION; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SELF EFFICACY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUAL PARTNERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883558705     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12252     Document Type: Article

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