Sixty-five sexually dysfunctional couples were randomly assigned to treatment by a single male therapist, a single female therapist, or a dual-sex cotherapy team. Treated dysfunctions included male erectile failure and premature ejaculation and female primary and secondary orgasmic dysfunction. Assessments of marital and sexual satisfaction and functioning were made at initial intake, at the start of therapy, immediately following therapy, and at a 3-month follow-up. The assessment battery included the Locke-Wallace Marriage Inventory, the Sexual Interaction Inventory, patient global ratings, and measures of symptom remission. Repeated measures analysis of variance and post hoc comparisons failed to reveal any differences in effectiveness of single therapists versus cotherapy teams. Furthermore, in cases treated by single therapists, a matching of sex of therapist with sex of the dysfunctional member of the patient couple did not lead to better outcome than for nonmatched cases. Overall, sex therapy was generally effective, although greater gains were shown in patient global ratings of satisfaction and in the psychometric measures of adjustment than in actual symptom remission.
Separate and interactive effects for 198 subjects or eye contact, vocal fluency and vocal loudness on peers' judgments of a same-sex (male) person's assertiveness, aggressiveness, submissiveness, competence and friendliness are evaluated. Implications for assertiveness training are discussed.
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