Is Sexual Concordance Related to Awareness of Physiological States?

Suschinsky, Kelly D.; Lalumière, Martin L.

doi:10.1007/s10508-012-9931-9

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“…There was no significant difference in the number of participants who exhibited high respiration rate awareness between the two studies, χ 2 (1) = 0.003, P = 0.96. Consistent with the results of the chi‐square analysis, the women in the current sample had significantly higher heart rate awareness (M = 0.31, SD = 0.30) than the women in Suschinsky and Lalumière's study (M = 0.11, SD = 0.26), t (49) = 2.45, P = 0.018. There was no significant difference in respiration rate awareness across the two studies, t (49) = 0.14, P = 0.88.…”

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The Relationship Between Sexual Concordance and Interoception in Anxious and Nonanxious Women

Suschinsky¹,

Lalumière

2014

The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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Introduction Sexual concordance refers to the association between physiological and self-reported sexual arousal. Women typically exhibit lower sexual concordance scores than men. There is also a sex difference in interoception—awareness of (nonsexual) physiological states or responses—such that women, compared with men, tend to be less aware of and less accurate at detecting changes in their physiological responses. Women with anxiety problems tend to have better interoceptive abilities than nonanxious women. Aim To investigate whether women's lower sexual concordance is associated with interoception using a sample likely to show high variation in interoceptive abilities. Method Sixteen anxious and 15 nonanxious women were presented with twelve 90 seconds sexual and nonsexual film clips while their genital response, heart rate, and respiration rate were measured. A heartbeat mental tracking task was also employed. Main Outcome Measures Genital response was measured with a vaginal photoplethysmograph. Heart rate was measured with an electrocardiogram and respiration rate with a thermistor. Participants estimated their physiological responses after each film. A mental tracking task was also used to assess participants' awareness of heart rate. Within-subject correlations were computed for each physiological/self-reported response combination. Results Overall, sexual concordance (i.e., the correlation between genital responses and perceptions of genital response) was not significantly associated with heart rate awareness or respiration rate awareness. Anxious women did not exhibit significantly higher sexual concordance or heart rate awareness than nonanxious women; the nonanxious women actually exhibited higher respiration rate awareness. Conclusion The results suggest that sexual concordance may be a distinct phenomenon from interoception and in need of its own explanation.

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“…Suschinsky and Lalumière presented men and women with a variety of short sexual and nonsexual films while their genital response, heart rate, and respiration rate were measured. After each film, participants were asked to estimate their genital response, heart rate, and respiration rate.…”

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The Relationship Between Sexual Concordance and Interoception in Anxious and Nonanxious Women

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Lalumière

2014

The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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“… 27 The available evidence suggests that sexual concordance is not significantly related to performance on typical laboratory measures of interoceptive sensitivity such as HBP (Suschinsky & Lalumière, 2012, 2014). No studies to date have, however, examined the correlation between sexual concordance and performance on real-world measures of interoceptive sensitivity (e.g., Cox et al, 1985).…”

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Interoceptive dysfunction: Toward an integrated framework for understanding somatic and affective disturbance in depression.

Harshaw

2015

Psychological Bulletin

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Depression is characterized by disturbed sleep and eating, a variety of other, nonspecific somatic symptoms, and significant somatic comorbidities. Why there is such close association between cognitive and somatic dysfunction in depression is nonetheless poorly understood. An explosion of research in the area of interoception—the perception and interpretation of bodily signals—over the last decade nonetheless holds promise for illuminating what have until now been obscure links between the social, cognitive-affective, and somatic features of depression. This paper reviews rapidly accumulating evidence that both somatic signaling and interoception are frequently altered in depression. This includes comparative studies showing vagus-mediated effects on depression-like behaviors in rodent models as well as studies in humans indicating both dysfunction in the neural substrates for interoception (e.g., vagus, insula, anterior cingulate cortex) and reduced sensitivity to bodily stimuli in depression. An integrative framework for organizing and interpreting this evidence is put forward which incorporates (a) multiple potential pathways to interoceptive dysfunction; (b) interaction with individual, gender, and cultural differences in interoception; and (c) a developmental psychobiological systems perspective, emphasizing likely differential susceptibility to somatic and interoceptive dysfunction across the lifespan. Combined with current theory and evidence, it is suggested that core symptoms of depression (e.g., anhedonia, social deficits) may be products of disturbed interoceptive-exteroceptive integration. More research is nonetheless needed to fully elucidate the relationship between mind, body, and social context in depression.

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“…This study found that there is no correlation between RWA and sexual discordance of santri in Indonesia Islamic boarding school. According to Suschinsky and Lalumière (2012), sexual concordance (as the opposite continuum of sexual discordance) is more influenced by individual's consciousness of their physiological condition. This physiological consciousness among others includes consciousness of heart beat and consciousness of their own breathing or respiration.…”

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Sexual disorders and right-wing authoritarianism in Indonesian boarding school

Khaerina¹,

Abraham²

2014

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Sexual disorders in Indonesia Islamic boarding schools have been extensively studied. However, there have been no researches that correlate them with right-wing authoritarianism.In this study, right-wing authoritarianism was hypothesized to correlate with the four dimensions of sexual disorders of Garos Sexual Behavior Inventory. This study used correlational design with Spearman's correlation data analysis. There were 271 study participants (140 males, 131 females; M age = 15.93 years old; SD age = 1.69 years) taken using purposive sampling technique. The research results showed negative correlations between right-wing authoritarianism and sexual stimulation, sexual obsession as well as sexual permissiveness. However, there is no correlation between authoritarianism and sexual discordance. This study does not recommend increasing the level of right-wing authoritarianism based on reasons presented in the Discussion and Conclusion sections.

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Is Sexual Concordance Related to Awareness of Physiological States?

Cited by 48 publications

References 35 publications

The Relationship Between Sexual Concordance and Interoception in Anxious and Nonanxious Women

The Relationship Between Sexual Concordance and Interoception in Anxious and Nonanxious Women

Interoceptive dysfunction: Toward an integrated framework for understanding somatic and affective disturbance in depression.

Sexual disorders and right-wing authoritarianism in Indonesian boarding school

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