TY - JOUR JF - PCP JO - PCP VL - 1 IS - 1 PY - 2013 Y1 - 2013/1/01 TI - The Relationship between Attachment Styles, Marital Satisfaction and Sex Guilt with Sexual Desire in Iranian Women TT - N2 - Objective: Among a representative sample of married women in the capital of Iran, Tehran, we aimed to determine the association of self-reported sexual desire with (1) Self-reported attachment styles (2) Self-reported marital satisfaction (3) Self-reported sex guilt. Methods: The data were obtained from a total of 192 married Iranian women who were selected via multi-cluster sampling method from universities of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Tarbiat Modares, and Islamic Azad. The subjects’ sociodemographic data, attachment styles (adult attachment styles index), marital satisfaction (ENRICH marital satisfaction questionnaire), sex guilt (Mosher revised sex-guilt inventory), and sexual desire (Hurlbert index of sexual desire) were collected. Results: Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Findings showed that there is a significant relationship between sexual desire and secure attachment style (r=0.283, P SP - 17 EP - 24 AU - Moshtagh, Nahaleh AU - Teimourpour, Negar AU - Pourshanbaz, Abbas AD - Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. KW - Sexual desire KW - Attachment styles KW - Marital satisfaction KW - Sex guilt UR - http://jpcp.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-23-en.html ER -