Abstract
Sexual arousal is integral to the sexual experience. It is characterized by both subjective (i.e., mental) and physiological (e.g., genital, autonomic) components. The nuances of these components are difficult to capture via self-report instruments, as the items on these measures are typically generated by researchers rather than driven by participant experiences. Asking women to describe sexual arousal in their own words may enhance our understanding of the construct. Individual differences in experiences of arousal may be most apparent between women with and without arousal concerns. Women with (n = 190) and without (n = 610) arousal concerns were recruited to take part in an online writing study. Participants were instructed to write about their experience of sexual arousal, after which they completed the Female Sexual Function Index (Rosen et al., 2000). Themes were extracted from the writing samples using the Meaning Extraction Method (Chung & Pennebaker, 2008) and compared between the two groups. Binary logistic regressions were conducted to assess predictability of themes on sexual function.
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