The Relationship Between Fear of COVID-19, Quality of Sexual Life, and Sexual Satisfaction of Women in Turkey

Gönenç, İ̇lknur Münevver; ÖZEN, Derya ÖZTÜRK; Sezer, Neslihan Yılmaz

doi:10.1080/19317611.2022.2058145

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“…Inconsistent results regarding the association between fear of COVID-19 and SQoL have been reported in previous studies. While there was a negative association between the fear of COVID-19 and female’s SQoL during the pandemic in one study76 (the same as this study), in some of the previous studies, fear of COVID-19 was not significantly associated with SQoL 24 77. This difference might be due to different sampling time because the COVID-19 pandemic has had both peak and plateau periods of disease transition in different countries.…”

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Mediating role of psychological distress and domestic violence in the association of fear of COVID-19 with marital satisfaction and sexual quality of life among women of reproductive age: An Iranian cross-sectional study

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ObjectivesThis study aimed to determine the mediating role of psychological distress and domestic violence in the association of fear of COVID-19 with marital satisfaction and sexual quality of life (QoL) among Iranian women of reproductive age.MethodsA cross-sectional study comprising 324 married women was conducted. Online convenience sampling was used to collect data. SPSS PROCESS macro was used for the mediation analysis. The direct and indirect effects of the fear of COVID-19 on sexual QoL and marital satisfaction were estimated comprising a 95% CI using 5000 bootstrap samples. Pairwise comparisons between the mediators were calculated by Hayes’ macros.ResultsA positive/negative or suspected history of COVID-19 infection had marginally significant relationship with marital satisfaction (p=0.049). The total effect of fear of COVID-19 on sexual QoL was significant (b=−1.31, SE=0.20, p<0.001). Fear of COVID-19 had no significant direct effect on sexual QoL (b=−0.22, SE=0.19, p=0.24) but it had an indirect effect on sexual QoL via mediation of psychological distress (b=−0.34, SE=0.09, 95% CI: −0.53 to −0.19) and domestic violence (b=−0.75, SE=0.18, 95% CI: −1.12 to −0.40). The total effect of fear of COVID-19 on marital satisfaction was significant (b=−1.91, SE=0.32, p<0.001). Fear of COVID-19 had no significant direct effect (b=0.20, SE=0.25, p=0.42) on marital satisfaction but it had an indirect effect on marital satisfaction via mediation of psychological distress (b=−0.59, SE=0.13, 95% CI: −0.86 to −0.36) and domestic violence (b=−1.51, SE=0.29, 95% CI: −2.08 to −0.92).ConclusionThe fear of COVID-19 during the pandemic indirectly decreased women’s marital satisfaction and sexual QoL via increased psychological distress and domestic violence. Consequently, in critical situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, improving couples’ psychological health and reducing domestic violence are likely to improve women’s sexual QoL and marital satisfaction.

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Mediating role of psychological distress and domestic violence in the association of fear of COVID-19 with marital satisfaction and sexual quality of life among women of reproductive age: An Iranian cross-sectional study

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“…The results suggest that the reason that individuals who have had COVID-19 experience a lower quality of life when their perceived danger of COVID-19 is higher is strictly because of the changes in their lives from the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the perceived danger of COVID-19 may not be the direct risk factor for the worsened quality of life as some of the literature suggests (e.g., Demirbas et al, 2021 ; Gönenç et al, 2022 ; Hayes et al, 2021 ; Naghizadeh et al, 2021 ; Shoychet et al, 2022 ). Instead, it is the life changes COVID-19 has forced on people that lower one's quality of life.…”

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“…There are some important practical implications of these findings. First, for people who have not had COVID-19, interventions focusing on alleviating fear and anxiety about COVID-19 or the life changes from COVID-19 that attempt to improve individuals' quality of life may not be as helpful as previously thought (e.g., Demirbas et al, 2021 ; Gönenç et al, 2022 ; Kurzhals et al, 2021 ; Saracoglu et al, 2020 ). Second, the significant covariances between 1) perceived danger of COVID-19 and quality of life and 2) COVID-19 life change found in the measurement model may be illusory because they disappear once each relationship is controlled for the other.…”

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“…One of the determinants that emerged as a negative correlate of quality of life is the fear of and anxiety about the COVID-19 pandemic, which is labeled as the perceived danger of COVID-19. Five studies to date have demonstrated this negative relationship between the perceived danger of COVID-19 and quality of life, all of which were cross-sectional (Demirbas et al, 2021 ; Gönenç et al, 2022 ; Hayes et al, 2021 ; Naghizadeh et al, 2021 ; Shoychet et al, 2022 ). Three of these studies focused on health-related populations (i.e., irritable bowel disease, pregnancy, and sexual health), and the effects were found in Canada, Turkey, Iran, and Australia, but researchers have yet to demonstrate these effects in the United States.…”

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The explanatory ability of COVID-19 life changes on quality of life: A comparison of those who have had and not had COVID-19

Stone

2022

Curr Psychol

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The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly negatively affected individuals’ quality of life through multiple means such as social isolation, exacerbated mental health conditions, and financial instability. Multiple studies have demonstrated that one of the negative correlates of quality of life is the perceived danger of COVID-19 (i.e., fear of and anxiety about COVID-19). The current study addresses limitations in the literature by testing how life changes from COVID-19 explain the direct effect of the perceived danger of COVID-19 on quality of life using a United States sample between those who have had COVID-19 compared to those who have not had COVID-19. Undergraduate students ( n = 196) from a Midwestern University in the United States participated in this study for course credit (White: n = 109; 55.61%; Male: n = 94; 48.0%). Participants completed this study online and at home where they responded to a demographic form and several measures of the effects of COVID-19 and quality of life. The results suggest that COVID-19 life changes fully explain the negative relationship between the perceived danger of COVID-19 and quality of life, but only in those who have had COVID-19. In the group that has never had COVID-19, the only significant relationship was the positive relationship between the perceived danger of COVID-19 on COVID-19 life changes. The results suggest that researchers may consider steering research away from the perceived danger of COVID-19 and onto remedying life changes from COVID-19 to improve individuals’ quality of life. I further discuss the theoretical findings, implications, limitations, and future directions.

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“…Several studies also link changes in sexual dynamics directly to pandemic stress. Fear of COVID-19 infection and increased relational conflicts were associated with lower sexual quality and satisfaction in samples of Turkish women (Gönenç, Öztürk Özen, and Yılmaz Sezer 2022) and married Egyptian men (Reda et al 2022). Higher rates of pandemic stress were also related to increased experiences of sexual coercion among Canadians with live-in partners (Brotto et al 2022).…”

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Mating in Captivity: The Influence of Social Location on Sexual Satisfaction through Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic

McElroy

Perry

Grubbs

2023

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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The recent global pandemic provides a natural experiment “intervention” to examine how differing baseline social dynamics such as gender, education, and politics shaped diverging patterns of well-being during rapidly shifting societal conditions. Using married adults from a nationally representative panel study in the United States from August 2019 to August 2021, discontinuous growth curves reveal a large drop in average married sexual satisfaction in both quality and frequency directly following the pandemic onset. Moreover, sexual satisfaction remained largely suppressed for the subsequent 18 months, apart from a brief “optimism blip” in the fall of 2020. Race, age, income, employment, parenthood, education, and political affiliation all appear as meaningful predictors, but these differ across various phases of the pandemic and by gender. These results reveal evidence of lingering changes in subjective sexual well-being as well as patterns of catastrophe risk and resilience moderated by social location factors.

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The Relationship Between Fear of COVID-19, Quality of Sexual Life, and Sexual Satisfaction of Women in Turkey

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Mediating role of psychological distress and domestic violence in the association of fear of COVID-19 with marital satisfaction and sexual quality of life among women of reproductive age: An Iranian cross-sectional study

Mediating role of psychological distress and domestic violence in the association of fear of COVID-19 with marital satisfaction and sexual quality of life among women of reproductive age: An Iranian cross-sectional study

The explanatory ability of COVID-19 life changes on quality of life: A comparison of those who have had and not had COVID-19

Mating in Captivity: The Influence of Social Location on Sexual Satisfaction through Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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