scholarly journals Sexual dysfunction as a consequence of coronavirus infection and quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Н.Д. Кибрик ◽  
Ю.П. Прокопенко
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dysfunction ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Progressive Decrease ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Couples Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Intimate Life

В статье рассматриваются факторы, связанные с пандемией COVID-19, влияющие на интимную жизнь в постоянных парах. Исследования сексологов, психологов, психотерапевтов, репродуктологов, объединение разносторонних проявлений самооценки и взаимоотношений в интимной сфере демонстрируют довольно стройную картину явлений, связанных с психологическими, психическими и физиологическими запросами и возможностями как отдельных индивидуумов, так и макросоциальных образований. Отмечается зависимость проявлений сексуальности от напряженности инфекционной ситуации и карантинной политики. Предлагаются практические подходы для стабилизации и улучшения интимного поведения в супружеских парах при проживании в ограниченных условиях в присутствии других членов семьи, направленные на снижение риска депрессии и сексуальных расстройств в условиях самоограничения при пандемии COVID-19. В настоящее время, после зимы 2020-2021 гг., сопровождающейся прогрессивным снижением уровня заболеваемости и смертности, растет число людей с рациональным отношением к происходящему, которые активно адаптируются внутри семьи, а также в социуме. The article examines the factors associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting intimate life in long-term couples. Research by sexologists, psychologists, psychotherapists, reproductologists, combining versatile manifestations of self-esteem and relationships in the intimate sphere demonstrate a fairly harmonious picture of phenomena associated with psychological, mental and physiological needs and capabilities of both individuals and macrosocial formations. The dependence of manifestations of sexuality on the intensity of the infectious situation and quarantine policy is noted. Practical approaches are proposed to stabilize and improve intimate behavior in married couples living in limited conditions in the presence of other family members, aimed at reducing the risk of depression and sexual dysfunction in self-restraint conditions in the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, after the winter of 2020-2021, accompanied by a progressive decrease in the level of morbidity and mortality, the number of people with a rational attitude to what is happening is growing, who are actively adapting within the family, as well as in society.

scholarly journals Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Extramarital Sex Among Nigerian Men

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kola Oyediran ◽  
Uche C. Isiugo-Abanihe ◽  
Bamikale J. Feyisetan ◽  
Gbenga P. Ishola
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
Sexual Debut ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Consistent Condom ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Extramarital Sex ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gender Based

This study used data on currently married and cohabiting men aged 15 to 64 years from the 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey to examine the prevalence of and factors associated with extramarital sex. The results show that 16% engaged in extramarital sex in the 12 months preceding the survey and had an average of 1.82 partners. The results also show statistically significant association between extramarital sex and ethnicity, religion, age, age at sexual debut, education, occupation, and place of residence. Based on the study results, it could be concluded that significant proportions of Nigerians are exposed to HIV infection through extramarital sex. A fundamental behavioral change expected in the era of HIV/AIDS is the inculcation of marital fidelity and emotional bonding between marital partners. The promotion of condom use among married couples should be intensified to protect women, a large number of whom are exposed to HIV infection from their spouses who engage in unprotected extramarital sex. And, because of gender-based power imbalances within the family, a large number of the women are unable to negotiate consistent condom use by their partners.

scholarly journals Cohabitation and Commitment: Partnership Plans of Young Men and Women

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Jamieson ◽  
Michael Anderson ◽  
David McCrone ◽  
Frank Bechhofer ◽  
Robert Stewart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Married Couples ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cohabiting Couples ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Depth Interviews

Popular commentators on marriage and the family often interpret the increase in heterosexual couples living together without marrying as reduced willingness to create and honour life-long partnerships. Survey and in-depth interviews with samples of 20–29 year olds living in an urban area of Scotland finds little support for the postulated link between growing cohabitation and a weakened sense of commitment to long-term arrangements. Most of the cohabiting couples strongly stressed their ‘commitment’. Socially acceptable vocabularies of motive undoubtedly influenced answers but interviews helped to explore deeper meanings. Many respondents' views were consistent with previous research predictions of a weakening sense of any added value of marriage. At the same time, some respondents continued to stress the social significance of the distinction between marriage and cohabitation, consistent with research interpreting cohabitation as a ‘try and see’ strategy part-way to the perceived full commitment of marriage. The notion that ‘marriage is better for children’ continued to have support among respondents. While, on average, cohabiting couples had lower incomes and poorer employment situations than married couples, only very extreme adverse circumstances were presented as making marriage ‘too risky’. Pregnancy-provoked cohabitation was not always in this category. Cohabitation was maintained because marriage would ‘make no difference’ or because they ‘had not yet got round to’ marriage. Most respondents were more wary of attempting to schedule or plan in their personal life than in other domains and cohabitees' attitudes to partnership, including their generally ‘committed’ approach, do not explain the known greater vulnerability of this group to dissolution.

We are in this together

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Wagner ◽  
Manuel C. Voelkle ◽  
Christiane A. Hoppmann ◽  
Mary A. Luszcz ◽  
Denis Gerstorf
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
Lagged Effects ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Potential Conditions ◽  
Do So

Lifespan theoretical notions have long acknowledged that regulative capacities of the self are relatively robust well into old age. This general trend notwithstanding, people often differ substantially throughout life in their levels of and change trajectories in self-esteem. One prime contributing factor may be perceptions of social inclusion. Because functioning and development in many domains of life are often linked across partners, we examine whether and how self-esteem and its late-life change are intertwined between long-term married partners. To do so, we make use of six occasions over 18-year longitudinal data from 382 married couples in the Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging ( Mage = 75 years at baseline, SD = 5.3, range 65–91). Applying SEM-based continuous time panel models revealed that discrete time autoregressive effects, which capture the stability of self-esteem, were declining over time. Most important for our question, across-partner (cross-lagged) effects indicated substantial differences between spouses such that change in husbands’ self-esteem predicts subsequent changes in the wives’ self-esteem, but not vice versa. We discuss potential conditions and challenges of dyadic associations in how late-life self-esteem and its change are intertwined between partners.

scholarly journals Jobs and Computers

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-84
Author(s):  
Maurice Lipsedge ◽  
Angela B. Summerfield ◽  
G. Lazzari ◽  
M. van Beeston
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Open Market ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Hospital Patients ◽  
Perceived Locus Of Control ◽  
Control Work ◽  
The Unemployed

This is a report on a project which offers long-term day hospital patients a training which will lead to paid employment on the open market. Lack of work compounds the low self-esteem of chronic psychiatric patients. They experience multiple disadvantages, including loss of status, purpose, personal identity, social contacts outside the family, and a time structure to the day. Many of these disadvantages are known to be experienced by unemployed people in the general population. In most surveys, a fifth of the unemployed report a deterioration in their mental health since being unemployed, with an increased frequency of deterioration proportional to length of time without work. Work enhances self-esteem by decreasing the degree of dependency and by allowing identification with non-patients and may influence perceived locus of control. Work provides social participation and is ‘a visible measure of normality’ for former patients.

The Gifted Label, Gifted Children and the Aftermath

1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Ring ◽  
Michael F. Shaughnessy
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
After Effects ◽  
The Family ◽  
Males And Females

Gifted children are receiving more and more attention and special educational services in the school system of America today. While there is much on labeling people as “mentally retarded” little has been done on the effects of labeling children as “gifted”. This paper explores the effects of labeling children as gifted. It addresses the effects that the label places on males and females and their self-concept and self-esteem. The family too, is affected in very subtle ways. The literature regarding the labeling process and its effects are discussed. Lately, peer relationships are somewhat affected both for boys and girls. Expectations are often set, and friendships are affected. Needed research in this area will be specified. We need to know more about the process and both the immediate and long-term effects, ramifications, and repercussions of the labeling process and its after effects.

scholarly journals Dyadic Coping Strategies of Spouses as a Factor in Latent Dysfunctional Relationships in the Family: an Empirical Study in a Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
T.I. Bonkalo ◽  
T.Y. Marinova ◽  
S.V. Feoktistova ◽  
S.V. Shmeleva
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Dyadic Coping ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Family ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
The Relationship

Objective. Identification of the nature of the relationship between the dyadic coping strategies of spouses and their subjective perception of the characteristics of changes in family relations during the period of forced self-isolation, due to the threat of the spread of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19. Background. The increase in the number of divorces in countries that have overcome the pandemic of COVID-19 coronavirus infection leads to the actualization of the problem of providing effective psychological assistance to families in conditions of forced self-isolation. The development of such measures should be based on evidence-based information about the factors that cause the strengthening or, on the contrary, the destruction of family relations in non-standard situations of family life. Study design. The study was conducted from April 15 to May 10, 2020 using an online psychological survey. At the beginning of the study, the period of self-isolation was two weeks. The study was carried out in two stages: 1) a survey of family members about their subjective perception of changes that occurred in interpersonal relations with the spouse during the period of self-isolation (online questionnaire); 2) the study of the relationship between indicators of dyadic coping strategies and the subjective perception of inter-marital relations. To measure the dyadic coping strategies of the spouses, proven valid and reliable methods were used. Participants. At the first stage of the study, 674 people were interviewed, of which 503 were women aged 24 to 43 years, and 171 were men from 27 to 47 years old. At the second stage, those respondents who noted an improvement or deterioration in relations in their family were selected from the first sample. As a result of online interviewing, two samples were generated for the second stage of the study, equalized by the number of married couples: the first sample included 34 married couples, who, according to a preliminary survey, noted a deterioration in family relations (average age of men — 36,7; women — 34,4). In the second, there were also 34 married couples who noted positive changes in relations with each other (average age of men — 38,1; women — 33,2). Measurements. The study used comparative analyzes with the calculation of the χ2 criterion, Student t-test, Spearman correlation coefficient. For data processing, SPSS 22.0 programs were used. Results. As a result of the research, it was revealed that there are reliable relationships between the subjective perception of spouses of the features of relationships in the family and their chosen strategies of coping behavior in non-standard and difficult life situations. Conclusions. Dyadic coping strategies of spouses are one of the dominant factors of the nature and features of inter-marital relations, which makes it necessary to take them into account in the construction of programs for providing psychological assistance to the family in non-standard conditions of its life.

Effects of Childhood Experience of Violence Between Parents and/or Parent-to-Child Violence on Young Israeli Adults’ Global Self-Esteem

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 699-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeev Winstok
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Childhood Experience ◽  
The Family ◽  
Child Violence ◽  
Childhood Violence ◽  
Practical Implications

The study examines long-term effects of family violence in childhood (violence between parents and/or parent-to-child violence) on adult self-esteem. Data were derived from a sample of 352 university students. Findings show that young adults not exposed to family violence in childhood report the highest self-esteem; lower self-esteem reports were by those experiencing one type of family violence; the lowest self-esteem was reported by those who experienced two types of family violence. In the latter two groups, self-esteem was also affected by frequency of violence. A linkage was identified between the family violence types examined: The more frequent one type of violence, the more frequent the other type. Theoretical and practical implications for the study of effects of family violence on child development are discussed.

scholarly journals Factors associated with social support for family members who care for stroke survivors

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-154
Author(s):  
Anna Kavga ◽  
◽  
Ioannis Kalemikerakis ◽  
Theocharis Konstantinidis ◽  
Ioanna Tsatsou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Annual Family Income ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

<abstract><sec> <title>Introduction</title> <p>Vascular strokes are a primary cause of long-term disability for adults, with many social consequences for the patient, the family and healthcare systems worldwide.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Aim</title> <p>To investigate the relation between patients' and caregivers' characteristics, as well as burden and depression, and the social support received by carers for stroke victims in Greece.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Method</title> <p>Patients and caregivers were recruited from community settings in the Attica region of Greece, using purposive sampling. They completed a set of questionnaires during face-to-face interviews. Correlational and multiple regression analyses were performed to identify factors associated with caregivers' perceptions of social support.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Results</title> <p>In total, 109 dyads of patients and their respective caregivers were recruited. The patients' mean age was 69.3 years, while caregivers' mean age was 58.0 years; 51.4% of patients were males, whereas 67.9% of the caregivers were females. The majority of both patients and caregivers were married, with an annual family income less than €10,000. The level of perceived social support was significantly associated with patients' or caregivers' annual family income, caregivers' working status and the daily caring hours (p &lt; 0.01). Greater perceived support was significantly associated with a lower care burden BCOS (r = 0.29, p &lt; 0.01) and female gender (p = 0.023), but not with the patient's functional level nor with depression (p &gt; 0.05).</p> </sec></abstract>

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