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Volume 24, Issue 150 (8-2025)
Journal of Psychological Science 2025, 24(150): 165-183 |
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Haji Abolzadeh N, Roshan Chesli R, Farahani H, Mashayekh M. (2025). The Relationship between Mentalization and Women's Sexual Satisfaction: the Mediating Role of Negative Mood. Journal of Psychological Science. 24(150), 165-183.
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Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran , roshan@shahed.ac.ir
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Background: Mentalization is a key factor in social functioning and mental health. However, its impact on sexual well-being and satisfaction has recently attracted the attention of researchers. Since there are interactions between the mentalization of attachment styles and emotion regulation, the study of mentalization with mood states and sexual satisfaction is a research necessity for conducting research in this field and an empirical necessity for the use of interventions based on mentalization.
Aims: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between mentalization and sexual satisfaction of women about the mediating role of negative mood.
Methods: The present study is an applied study of purpose and a cross-sectional study (descriptive-correlational) conducted using the structural equation modeling method. The statistical population consisted of all married female students of Tehran universities in 2021-2022. The sample consisted of 637 married female students selected by convenience sampling. The Subjectivization Scale (Fonagy, 2016), the anxiety and depression and stress scale (Levibond, 1995), and the sexual satisfaction scale (Maston, 2005) were used to collect data. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling using SPSS.22 and AMOS.24 software.
Results: The results of Pyrone's correlation coefficient showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between mentalization (certainty component) and sexual satisfaction (P< 0.05).There is a negative and significant relationship between mentalization (uncertainty component) and negative mood with sexual satisfaction(P< 0.05).The results of structural equation modeling showed that the proposed model is appropriate with the data and the uncertainty component directly and indirectly affects women's sexual satisfaction through negative mood.Also, the standard coefficient of indirectness of the component of certainty in sexual satisfaction through negative mood was significant.
Conclusion: This study is consistent with women's sexual response models and shows early support for the link between mood and sexual satisfaction.Therefore, it can be concluded that sexual satisfaction is not a single causal phenomenon and to treat it, transdiagnostic variables (mentalization and emotion regulation) should also be used.
Aims: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between mentalization and sexual satisfaction of women about the mediating role of negative mood.
Methods: The present study is an applied study of purpose and a cross-sectional study (descriptive-correlational) conducted using the structural equation modeling method. The statistical population consisted of all married female students of Tehran universities in 2021-2022. The sample consisted of 637 married female students selected by convenience sampling. The Subjectivization Scale (Fonagy, 2016), the anxiety and depression and stress scale (Levibond, 1995), and the sexual satisfaction scale (Maston, 2005) were used to collect data. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling using SPSS.22 and AMOS.24 software.
Results: The results of Pyrone's correlation coefficient showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between mentalization (certainty component) and sexual satisfaction (P< 0.05).There is a negative and significant relationship between mentalization (uncertainty component) and negative mood with sexual satisfaction(P< 0.05).The results of structural equation modeling showed that the proposed model is appropriate with the data and the uncertainty component directly and indirectly affects women's sexual satisfaction through negative mood.Also, the standard coefficient of indirectness of the component of certainty in sexual satisfaction through negative mood was significant.
Conclusion: This study is consistent with women's sexual response models and shows early support for the link between mood and sexual satisfaction.Therefore, it can be concluded that sexual satisfaction is not a single causal phenomenon and to treat it, transdiagnostic variables (mentalization and emotion regulation) should also be used.
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