Factors that Influence Individual Differences in Female Sexual Response in a College-Aged Population

College females (N=115) completed a questionnaire, which asked an array of questions about demographics, health, sexual partners and orgasm, sexual satisfaction, masturbation and vibrators, personality, and sex guilt. Of the participants, 106 reported that they had experienced sex of some kind, 83 indicated that they had experienced single orgasm during sex with a partner, and 46 indicated that they had experienced multiple orgasms during sex with a partner. Independent variables -- general questions, communication with partner, overall satisfaction, fear of becoming pregnant, stress, general demographics and medications -- were significantly related to one or both of the measures of sexual response used. The overall picture that the results suggest is that orgasm likelihood is influenced more by social aspects than physical, personality, or other characteristics.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Experimental Psychology (M.S.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2008

Author dc:creator

• Jones, Tynisa La'Sure

Contributors dc:contributor

• Amy Hackney
• Lawrence Locker

• ETD
• Orgasm
• Sexual experience
• Orgasm likelihood
• Sexual response
• Satisfaction
• Women college students

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/427

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1427