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A cross-national examination of sexual desire: The roles of ‘gendered cultural scripts’ and ‘sexual pleasure’ in predicting heterosexual women's desire for sex. / Rubin, Jennifer; Conley, Terri; Klein, Verena; Liu, Jie ; Lehane, Christine; Dammeyer, Jesper .

In: PERS INDIV DIFFER, Vol. 2019, No. 151, 07.2019.

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Rubin, J, Conley, T, Klein, V, Liu, J, Lehane, C & Dammeyer, J 2019, 'A cross-national examination of sexual desire: The roles of ‘gendered cultural scripts’ and ‘sexual pleasure’ in predicting heterosexual women's desire for sex', PERS INDIV DIFFER, vol. 2019, no. 151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.07.012

APA

Rubin, J., Conley, T., Klein, V., Liu, J., Lehane, C., & Dammeyer, J. (2019). A cross-national examination of sexual desire: The roles of ‘gendered cultural scripts’ and ‘sexual pleasure’ in predicting heterosexual women's desire for sex. PERS INDIV DIFFER, 2019(151). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.07.012

Vancouver

Rubin J, Conley T, Klein V, Liu J, Lehane C, Dammeyer J. A cross-national examination of sexual desire: The roles of ‘gendered cultural scripts’ and ‘sexual pleasure’ in predicting heterosexual women's desire for sex. PERS INDIV DIFFER. 2019 Jul;2019(151). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.07.012

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title = "A cross-national examination of sexual desire: The roles of {\textquoteleft}gendered cultural scripts{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}sexual pleasure{\textquoteright} in predicting heterosexual women's desire for sex",
abstract = "Women's low sexual desire has received a great deal of cultural and research attention. Surprisingly, pleasurewomen receive during partnered sexual encounters and sociocultural beliefs about sexual desire have largelybeen absent in the literature. The present study examined if gendered cultural scripts and pleasure from a sexualencounter predicted heterosexual women's desire for sex in four cross-national samples: United States (N=741),Canada (N=391), Germany (N=220), and Denmark (N=128). Hierarchical multiple regression results indicatethat for United States, Canadian, and German samples, anticipated pleasure and orgasm centrality weresignificant predictors of desire for sex, while endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a significant predictorof lower desire for sex. For the Danish sample, only endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a robustpredictor of lower desire for sex. Follow-up analyses using multilevel modeling found that the relationshipbetween the predictor variables and desire for sex was not significantly different across samples. Findingssuggest that nations may share more similarities than differences within the domain of sexual desire—heterosexualwomen that prioritize sexual pleasure and eschew gendered cultural scripts may be more likely to desiresex.",
author = "Jennifer Rubin and Terri Conley and Verena Klein and Jie Liu and Christine Lehane and Jesper Dammeyer",
year = "2019",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.paid.2019.07.012",
language = "Deutsch",
volume = "2019",
journal = "PERS INDIV DIFFER",
issn = "0191-8869",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
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RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - A cross-national examination of sexual desire: The roles of ‘gendered cultural scripts’ and ‘sexual pleasure’ in predicting heterosexual women's desire for sex

AU - Rubin, Jennifer

AU - Conley, Terri

AU - Klein, Verena

AU - Liu, Jie

AU - Lehane, Christine

AU - Dammeyer, Jesper

PY - 2019/7

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N2 - Women's low sexual desire has received a great deal of cultural and research attention. Surprisingly, pleasurewomen receive during partnered sexual encounters and sociocultural beliefs about sexual desire have largelybeen absent in the literature. The present study examined if gendered cultural scripts and pleasure from a sexualencounter predicted heterosexual women's desire for sex in four cross-national samples: United States (N=741),Canada (N=391), Germany (N=220), and Denmark (N=128). Hierarchical multiple regression results indicatethat for United States, Canadian, and German samples, anticipated pleasure and orgasm centrality weresignificant predictors of desire for sex, while endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a significant predictorof lower desire for sex. For the Danish sample, only endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a robustpredictor of lower desire for sex. Follow-up analyses using multilevel modeling found that the relationshipbetween the predictor variables and desire for sex was not significantly different across samples. Findingssuggest that nations may share more similarities than differences within the domain of sexual desire—heterosexualwomen that prioritize sexual pleasure and eschew gendered cultural scripts may be more likely to desiresex.

AB - Women's low sexual desire has received a great deal of cultural and research attention. Surprisingly, pleasurewomen receive during partnered sexual encounters and sociocultural beliefs about sexual desire have largelybeen absent in the literature. The present study examined if gendered cultural scripts and pleasure from a sexualencounter predicted heterosexual women's desire for sex in four cross-national samples: United States (N=741),Canada (N=391), Germany (N=220), and Denmark (N=128). Hierarchical multiple regression results indicatethat for United States, Canadian, and German samples, anticipated pleasure and orgasm centrality weresignificant predictors of desire for sex, while endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a significant predictorof lower desire for sex. For the Danish sample, only endorsement of gendered cultural scripts was a robustpredictor of lower desire for sex. Follow-up analyses using multilevel modeling found that the relationshipbetween the predictor variables and desire for sex was not significantly different across samples. Findingssuggest that nations may share more similarities than differences within the domain of sexual desire—heterosexualwomen that prioritize sexual pleasure and eschew gendered cultural scripts may be more likely to desiresex.

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DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2019.07.012

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VL - 2019

JO - PERS INDIV DIFFER

JF - PERS INDIV DIFFER

SN - 0191-8869

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