Sexual Satisfaction and Mental Health in Prison Inmates

  1. Perlman, Daniel
  2. Fernández-Rouco, Noelia
  3. Pérez, Fernando
  4. Hervalejo, Diego
  5. Carcedo, Rodrigo J.
  1. 1 Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Salamanca, Salamanca 37005, Spain
  2. 2 Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, USA
  3. 3 Department of Education, University of Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
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Revista:
Journal of Clinical Medicine

ISSN: 2077-0383

Año de publicación: 2019

Volumen: 8

Número: 5

Páginas: 705

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.3390/JCM8050705 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Journal of Clinical Medicine

Resumen

The main goal of this study was to investigate the association between sexual satisfaction and mental health, and the combined effect of two previously found, statistically significant moderators: partner status and sexual abstinence. In-person interviews were conducted with 223 participants (49.327% males and 50.673% females). The effect of sexual satisfaction on mental health and the interactions of sexual satisfaction × partner status, sexual satisfaction × sexual abstinence, and sexual satisfaction × partner status × sexual abstinence were examined using simple moderation and moderated moderation tests after controlling for a set of sociodemographic, penitentiary, and interpersonal variables. Results revealed a direct relationship between sexual satisfaction and mental health only for the sexually abstinent group. Partner status was not significant as a moderator. It seems that the lack of sexual relationships is more powerful as a moderator than the lack of a romantic relationship. Additionally, the sexually abstinent group showed lower levels of sexual satisfaction in those with a partner outside or inside prison, and lower mental health independently of the current romantic status, than sexually active inmates. These findings point to the importance of sexual satisfaction to mental health in sexual situations of extreme disadvantage.

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