Sex guilt and premarital sexual experiences of college students.

Mosher, Donald L.; Cross, Herbert J.

doi:10.1037/h0030454

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“…This is a novel finding because the specific mechanisms that underlie this well-documented association between ethnicity and sexual desire have not been empirically studied. As described earlier, Mosher and Cross (1971) conceived of sex guilt as a negatively-valenced emotion arising from the violation or anticipated violation of''standards of proper sexual conduct''that may manifest itself by''inhibited sexual behavior, or by the disruption of cognitive processes in sex-related situations.'' Why does sex guilt mediate the relationship between ethnicity and sexual desire?…”

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The Role of Sex Guilt in the Relationship Between Culture and Women’s Sexual Desire

2010

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A large body of literature demonstrates that East Asian women report lower sexual desire than Caucasian women. Although most studies have explained these differences by referring to general culture-linked differences in sexual conservatism, none have examined the potential role of specific constructs such as sex guilt. The goals of the current study were to examine the supposition that sexual conservatism mediates the relationship between culture and sexual desire, and to explore the potential mediating role of sex guilt in the link between culture and sexual desire. Caucasian (n = 105) and East Asian (n = 137) female university students completed questionnaires online. Caucasian women reported significantly higher levels of sexual desire, significantly lower levels of sexual conservatism, and significantly less sex guilt. In the entire sample, sexual conservatism and sex guilt separately mediated the relationship between ethnicity and sexual desire such that women with more sex guilt and those who were more sexually conservative reported lower sexual desire. Among the East Asian women, sex guilt, but not sexual conservatism, mediated the relationship between mainstream acculturation (degree of westernization) and sexual desire such that women with more sex guilt reported lower sexual desire. These findings suggest that sex guilt may be one mechanism by which ethnic groups differ in sexual desire.

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The Role of Sex Guilt in the Relationship Between Culture and Women’s Sexual Desire

2010

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“…Compared to men, women's contraceptive behaviour was more affected by negative emotional responses to sex. While guilt involves a negative evaluation of 'violating or anticipating violating standards of proper sexual conduct' (Mosher & Cross, 1971;p. 27), the object of evaluation in shame is not the behaviour, but the self, followed by feeling exposed, small and a desire to escape or withdraw from the eliciting situation (Covert, Tangney, Maddux, & Heleno, 2003).…”

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Investigating the relationship between past contraceptive behaviour, self‐efficacy, and anticipated shame and guilt in sexual contexts among Norwegian adolescents

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2006

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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What are the relationships between self-efficacy when communicating to the partner about use of contraception, stopping undesired intercourse, and perceived self-conscious emotions in sexual contexts? How does past contraceptive behaviour influence perceived self-efficacy? These research questions were studied among 399 10th grade students with coital experience in the county Nordland in Norway. Two dimensions of perceived emotional responses were identified in a hypothetical situation related to communicating to the partner about use of contraception, namely Shame and Emotional intimacy. Two dimensions were also identified with regard to anticipated emotional responses in a hypothetical situation related to stopping undesired intercourse: Guilt and responsibility and Emotional intimacy. Most of the boys and girls reported that they would react with positive emotions in both hypothetical situations. Path models were constructed with the affective dimensions and self-esteem as mediating variables between past contraceptive behaviour and contextual self-efficacy. Past behaviour influenced communication self-efficacy indirectly via Shame, and Shame had a direct effect upon self-efficacy. Guilt and responsibility had a direct effect upon stop-self-efficacy.

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“…Through experience we add new fantasies to our collection and drop others. Although the dynamics of this process serve to complicate research on fantasy roles and content, three variables have been cited frequently as influences-age, sex differences, and conservatism/liberalism (DeMartino, 1974;Hariton & Singer, 1974;Mosher & Cross, 1971). …”

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A study of fantasy: Determinants of fantasy function and content

1985

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This study is concerned with the role of fantasy. Prior research has studied the role of fantasy by investigating the content or types of fantasy and fantasy frequency with the reasoning that such knowledge provides implications as to fantasy's role in human functioning. The present study examined fantasy frequency and content in relation to the variables of gender and the social attitude of liberalism/conservatism (N = 304). It was proposed that (a) liberals would engage in more sexual, and bizarre‐improbable fantasies than conservatives; (b) males would be more liberal and engage in sexual fantasy more frequently than females; (c) subjects would engage in less sexual and bizarre‐improbable fantasies as age increased; and (d) fantasies would be present oriented. The study yielded mixed results. Using an adapted version of the Imaginal Processes Inventory, it was found that the second and third research questions were supported entirely, while the first and fourth research questions were supported only partially.

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Sex guilt and premarital sexual experiences of college students.

Cited by 153 publications

References 14 publications

The Role of Sex Guilt in the Relationship Between Culture and Women’s Sexual Desire

The Role of Sex Guilt in the Relationship Between Culture and Women’s Sexual Desire

Investigating the relationship between past contraceptive behaviour, self‐efficacy, and anticipated shame and guilt in sexual contexts among Norwegian adolescents

A study of fantasy: Determinants of fantasy function and content

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