The role of psychopathological and personality covariates in orgasmic difficulties: A prospective longitudinal evaluation in a cohort of women from age 30 to 50

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2928-2937

  Leeners, Brigitte ^a   Hengartner, Michael P ^b,c   Rössler, Wulf ^c,d   Ajdacic Gross, Vladeta ^c   Angst, Jules ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age; Coping resources; Female sexual dysfunction; Longitudinal course; Orgasmic difficulties; Personality traits; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRRITABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUSNESS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ORGASM DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARANOIA; PERSONALITY; PHOBIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATIZATION; EMOTION; ORGASM; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; ORGASM; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84913613805     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12709     Document Type: Article

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