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Sexual Satisfaction and Mental Health in Prison Inmates
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Palabras clave
Sexual satisfaction
Sexual abstinence
Partner status
Mental health
Prison inmates
Fecha de publicación
2019
Resumen
The main goal of this study was to investigate the association between sexual satisfaction and
mental health, and the combined e ect of two previously found, statistically significant moderators:
partner status and sexual abstinence. In-person interviews were conducted with 223 participants
(49.327% males and 50.673% females). The e ect of sexual satisfaction on mental health and
the interactions of sexual satisfaction partner status, sexual satisfaction sexual abstinence,
and sexual satisfaction partner status sexual abstinence were examined using simple moderation
and moderated moderation tests after controlling for a set of sociodemographic, penitentiary,
and interpersonal variables. Results revealed a direct relationship between sexual satisfaction and
mental health only for the sexually abstinent group. Partner status was not significant as a moderator.
It seems that the lack of sexual relationships is more powerful as a moderator than the lack of a
romantic relationship. Additionally, the sexually abstinent group showed lower levels of sexual
satisfaction in those with a partner outside or inside prison, and lower mental health independently
of the current romantic status, than sexually active inmates. These findings point to the importance of
sexual satisfaction to mental health in sexual situations of extreme disadvantage.
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DOI
10.3390/jcm8050705
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