title: Sexual desire in Iranian female university students: role of marital satisfaction and sex guilt.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine association between sexual desire and marital satisfaction and sex guilt among a sample of Iranian female university students.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data presented here were obtained from a total of 192 married Iranian female university students who were selected via a multi-cluster sampling method from universities of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Tarbiat Modarres, and Islamic Azad. The subjects' sociodemographic data, marital satisfaction (using ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire), sex guilt (using Mosher Revised Sex-Guilt Inventory), and sexual desire (using Hurlbert Index of Sexual Desire) were gathered. Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis methods were used to analyse the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings showed there are significant relationships between sexual desire and marital satisfaction (r = 0.51, p < 0.01) and also between sexual desire and sex guilt (r = -0.44, p < 0.01). Also marital satisfaction and sex guilt were able to predict 31 percent of the variance of sexual desire.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Marital satisfaction and sex guilt are two factors that significantly affect fluctuations in sexual desire of Iranian female university students.
authors: PhD Student, Department of Clinical Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Negar
authors: N
authors: Teimourpour
authors: Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Nahaleh
authors: N
authors: Moshtagh Bidokhti
authors: Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Abbas
authors: A
authors: Pourshahbaz
authors: Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Hadi
authors: H
authors: Bahrami Ehsan
keywords: Female; Marital Satisfaction; Sex Guilt; Sexual Desire; Student