Relationship Commitment, Perceived Equity, and Sexual Enjoyment Among Young Adults in the United States
Relationship Commitment, Perceived Equity, and Sexual Enjoyment Among Young Adults in the United States
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DOI：
10.1007/s10508-012-0003-y
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发表时间：
2013-01-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Sonenstein, Freya Lund
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作者：
Galinsky, Adena M.;Sonenstein, Freya Lund
在美国，人们对性行为的享受与性行为的关系背景之间的联系知之甚少。为了检验这种联系，采用国家青少年健康纵向研究第三波的数据进行了多变量LOGISTIC和有序LOGISTIC回归分析，这些数据是在参与者18到26岁(N=2,970)时收集的。分析探讨了性享受的四个衡量标准和关系背景的三个衡量标准之间的联系。感知的公平与性享受有关，但这种联系的模式因性别而不同。在女性中，认为自己受益不足的所有四项性快感指标都与幸福感较低有关，但只有一项指标与男性的性快感相关。在男性中，有三项性享受指标认为自己受益过多，但在女性中，只有两项与此相关。当主观关系承诺被添加到模型中时，这些关联中的大多数不再显着。在年轻的成年男性和女性中，主观的关系承诺与性享受的所有四个衡量标准都相关。相比之下，正式的关系状态并不总是与任何性享受措施相关联。平均而言，认为自己处于更忠诚的关系中的年轻人比那些处于不那么忠诚的关系中的人更享受伴侣的性行为。公共卫生运动可以利用对更高性快感的预期来激励年轻人参与更少、更坚定的性伙伴关系。
Very little is known about how enjoyment of sexual behavior is linked to the relationship context of the behavior among young adults in the United States. To examine this association, multivariate logistic and ordered logistic regression analyses were conducted using data from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, collected when the participants were 18 to 26 years old (N = 2,970). Analyses explored the associations between four measures of sexual enjoyment and three measures of relationship context. Perceived equity was associated with sexual enjoyment, but the pattern of associations differed by gender. Perceiving oneself to be underbenefited was associated with less enjoyment for all four measures of sexual enjoyment among women, but for only one measure among men. Perceiving oneself to be overbenefited was associated with less enjoyment for three of the sexual enjoyment measures among men, but for only two among women. Most of these associations were no longer significant when subjective relationship commitment was added to the models. Among both young adult men and women, subjective relationship commitment was associated with all four measures of sexual enjoyment. In contrast, formal relationship status was not consistently associated with any of the sexual enjoyment measures. Young adults perceiving that they are in more-committed relationships enjoy their partnered sexual acts more, on average, than those in less-committed relationships. Anticipation of higher sexual enjoyment could be used by public health campaigns to motivate young adults to engage in fewer, more-committed sexual partnerships.