Abstract
A great majority of the middle-aged women experience some degenerative physical symptoms, specifically pelvic prolapse which affected their quality of life. Accordingly, they experience marital distress and may lead to divorces and depression. For younger women, among college students, cybersex addiction may likely affect their academic performances. Female are double as compared to male in sexual addiction . Recent findings indicate that, spiritual wellbeing is the most satisfied domain among women in Malaysia. Yet, it does not correlate well with other domains, especially in economic. For single mothers, socio-economic status is indeed in crisis. Hence, there is a need to capitalize women’s spirituality as inner resources for Muslim women’s wellbeing. Therefore, we conceptualize a holistic model for Muslim Malaysian women wellbeing that integrates physical-sexual, socio-economical, and psycho-spiritual domains. Theoretically, this model helps to delineate Islamic transcendental theory that explains spiritual wellbeing permeates overall wellbeing. Finally, implications on counselling process are suggested.
Highlights
Women are the nucleus of families, and the pillars of nations
We conceptualize a holistic model for Muslim Malaysian women wellbeing that integrates physical-sexual, socio-economical, and psycho-spiritual domains
Bio-psychosocial factors such as lack of sexual fitness (Brubaker, Shott, Tomezsko, & Goldberg 2008), depression (Khoshbooii, Hassan, Hamzah, & Baba, 2011) and cybersex addictions (Zakaria & Baharudin, 2011, 2012) are among factors that lead to marital discord
Summary
Women are the nucleus of families, and the pillars of nations. In Malaysia, the contributions of women in multiple roles may not be overemphasis. Bio-psychosocial factors such as lack of sexual fitness (Brubaker, Shott, Tomezsko, & Goldberg 2008), depression (Khoshbooii, Hassan, Hamzah, & Baba, 2011) and cybersex addictions (Zakaria & Baharudin, 2011, 2012) are among factors that lead to marital discord. As of the year 2000, it has been estimated that nearly 20 million users visited sexual-related websites on monthly basis and this trend looks to continue as the search for sexual-related materials in the internet search engine has been ranked as the top searched items (Freeman-Longo, 2000) This trend sets to continue, it is unfortunate to note that research works on how to manage and prevent this addiction are not widely available. Cybersex addicts who compulsively used the internet pornography, adult chat rooms, or adult fantasy role-play sites most probably jeopardizing their mental health and real-life intimate partners (Zakaria & Baharudin, 2011; 2012)
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