Predicting Sexual Performance Based on Parenting Styles and Sexual Education Styles with the Mediating Role of Anxiety in Married Women

Rahmanian, Mahdieh; Shah Moradian, Rozalin

doi:10.30473/ijohp.2025.71098.1358

Document Type : research

Authors

¹ Associate professor, Department of psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

² Master of psychology, Department of psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30473/ijohp.2025.71098.1358

Abstract

Objective: Family dynamics play a significant role in establishing emotional relationships among its members and fostering psychological well-being, which extends to individual and collective members' peace of mind. This study aimed to investigate the impact of parenting styles and sexual education styles of parents, with anxiety as a mediating variable, on the sexual performance of married women.
Method: The study population consisted of married women who presented with sexual dysfunction at psychiatric and women's clinics in Tehran. Since the minimum number of samples in structural equation modeling is 200 individuals, 200 individuals were selected through convenience sampling. The research instruments included Baumrind's Parenting Styles Scale (1972), Parental Sexual Education Styles Scale (2010), Beck Anxiety Scale (1990), and Rosen et al.'s Sexual Performance Scale (2000). Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the data.
Results: The findings of the present study showed that anxiety does not have a mediating effect on the effect of parents' strict sexual education style on the sexual performance of married women, but it has a complete mediating effect on the sexual performance of married women in the authoritative sexual education style of parents. Also, anxiety has a partial mediating effect on the impact of parents' authoritarian parenting style on married women's sexual performance, and it does not have a mediating effect on the parents' authoritarian parenting style on married women's sexual performance (p > 0.05).
Conclusion: The study concludes that the sexual performance of married women is significantly influenced by the styles of parenting and sexual education they received, with anxiety playing varied mediating roles. An authoritative approach to sexual education, coupled with parenting styles that manage to reduce anxiety, tends to enhance sexual performance in women.

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Main Subjects

Psychological aspects in health and diseases

Article Title [Persian]

تاثیر سبک های فرزند پروری و سبک های تربیت جنسی والدین با اثر میانجی گری اضطراب بر عملکرد جنسی زنان متاهل

Authors [Persian]

مهدیه رحمانیان ¹
رزالین شاه مرادیان ²

¹ Associate professor, Department of psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

² Master of psychology, Department of psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract [Persian]

هدف: پویایی خانواده نقش بسزایی در برقراری روابط عاطفی بین اعضای آن و پرورش بهزیستی روانشناختی دارد که به آرامش روانی فردی و جمعی اعضا تسری می‌یابد. این پژوهش با هدف بررسی تأثیر سبک‌های فرزندپروری و سبک‌های تربیت جنسی والدین با متغیر میانجی اضطراب بر عملکرد جنسی زنان متاهل انجام شد.
روش: روش پژوهش توصیفی و مقایسه ای بود. جامعه مورد مطالعه را زنان متاهل مراجعه کننده به کلینیک های روانپزشکی و زنان شهر تهران تشکیل می دادند. حجم نمونه 200 نفر بود که به روش نمونه گیری در دسترس انتخاب شدند. ابزارهای تحقیق شامل مقیاس سبک های فرزندپروری بامریند (1972)، مقیاس سبک های تربیت جنسی والدین (2010)، مقیاس اضطراب بک (1990) و مقیاس عملکرد جنسی روزن و همکاران (2000) بود. تجزیه و تحلیل داده ها با استفاده از نرم افزار SPSS و AMOS انجام شد.
یافته‌ها: یافته‌های پژوهش حاضر نشان داد که اضطراب تأثیر واسطه‌ای بر تأثیر سبک تربیت جنسی سخت‌گیرانه والدین بر عملکرد جنسی زنان متاهل ندارد، اما تأثیر میانجی‌گری کاملی بر عملکرد جنسی زنان متاهل دارد. سبک تربیت جنسی مقتدرانه والدین همچنین، اضطراب اثر میانجی جزئی بر تأثیر سبک فرزندپروری مستبدانه والدین بر عملکرد جنسی زنان متاهل دارد. و تأثیر میانجی بر تأثیر سبک فرزندپروری مستبدانه والدین بر عملکرد جنسی زنان متاهل ندارد.
نتیجه‌گیری: می‌توان نتیجه گرفت که سبک‌های فرزندپروری و سبک‌های تربیت جنسی والدین، با اضطراب به‌عنوان عامل میانجی، به‌طور معناداری بر عملکرد جنسی زنان متاهل تأثیر می‌گذارد.

Keywords [Persian]

اضطراب
سلامت
سبک های فرزند پروری
سبک های تربیت جنسی والدین
عملکرد جنسی

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