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Sexual attitudes and behaviors of married Christian college alumni

Abstract

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between religiosity, marital satisfaction, sexual behaviors, and sexual satisfaction of married persons who attended a church affiliated university. Data were collected from 56 married individuals who attended a conservative, church-affiliated university located in the south-central United States. The sample was mostly caucasian, heterosexual, upper-middle income, college educated, divided equally by gender, and ranged. in age from 27 to 83 (M=age 46). Participants had been married between 4 and 54 years (M=22 years), and most (90%) participants were in their first and only marriage. Religiosity was operationalized by Rohrbaugh and Jessor's (1975) religiosity scale. Marital satisfaction was operationalized using the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (Hatch, James, & Schumm, 1986). Sexual satisfaction was operationalized from global sexual satisfaction questions (Darling & Davidson, 1987).

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph. D.
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Family and Child Development (Marriage and Family Therapy)
Department dc:contributor.department
Family and Child Development (Marriage and Family Therapy)
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
1993

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Beach, Alan E.
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Maxwell, Joseph W.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Cogswell, Dennis
  • Protinsky, Howard O. Jr.
  • Shea, Laurie
  • Sporakowski, Michael J.

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-07122007-103940
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/43703

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Beach, Alan E.. Sexual attitudes and behaviors of married Christian college alumni. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43703