Abstract
Background: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) causes physical, sexual, or psychological harm. The association between psychosexual (sexual assertiveness, erotophilia, and attitude towards sexual fantasies) and sexual function (sexual desire, sexual excitation, erection, orgasm capacity, and sexual satisfaction), and the experience of physical and non-physical IPV was assessed. Methods: Data from 3394 (1766 women, 1628 men) heterosexual adults completed the Spanish version of the Index of Spouse Abuse, scales measuring psychosexual and sexual function, and demographic characteristics were collected. Results: For men, poorer sexual health was associated with an experience of physical abuse (F = 4.41, p < 0.001) and non-physical abuse (F = 4.35, p < 0.001). For women, poorer sexual health was associated with physical abuse (F = 13.38, p < 0.001) and non-physical abuse (F = 7.83, p < 0.001). Conclusion: The experience of physical or non-physical abuse has a negative association with psychosexual and sexual functioning in both men and women.
Highlights
Assertiveness, and SexualIntimate Partner Violence (IPV) refers to behaviors that take place as part of partner relationships and cause physical, sexual, or psychological harm to victims of abuse, sexual coercion, psychological abuse, and controlling behaviors [1]
The results obtained about the distribution of adhesion typologies to the sexual double standard in the Spanish population revealed that the prevalence of the adhesion to woman-favorable typology of sexual double standard lay in younger groups, and for both men and women [63]
The results of this study demonstrate the negative association that the experience of abuse in the partner context has on sexual assertiveness, sexual attitudes, and sexual functioning
Summary
Assertiveness, and SexualIntimate Partner Violence (IPV) refers to behaviors that take place as part of partner relationships and cause physical, sexual, or psychological harm to victims of abuse, sexual coercion, psychological abuse, and controlling behaviors [1]. It is composed of 19 items distributed into two subscales: Nonphysical abuse (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.93) and Physical abuse (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.89). The version from Santos-Iglesias et al [27] was used for men It is composed of 30 items distributed into three subscales: Non-physical abuse (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.81), Behavioral control (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.60), and Physical abuse (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.79). To have the same two dimensions of abuse for both men and women, the subscale titled Behavioral control was not considered in this study. Ordinal’s alpha coefficient was 0.90 for men and 0.93 for women in physical abuse. It was 0.95 for both sexes in non-physical abuse
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