Relationship between Gender Roles and Sexual Assertiveness in Married Women.
Elham Azmoude, Mahbobe Firoozi, Elahe Sadeghi Sahebzad and 1 others
PMID 27713899WHAT IT FOUND
In 118 married Iranian women, gender-role type was not significantly related to sexual assertiveness.
Sexual function satisfaction was associated with higher assertiveness, while longer marriage was associated with lower assertiveness.
Key findings
01Gender role measures were not significantly related to sexual assertiveness, and gender-role type groups did not differ significantly.
02Sexual function satisfaction was positively correlated with sexual assertiveness and was the only significant predictor in the regression model.
03Longer marriage was significantly negatively related to sexual assertiveness.
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What it does not show
The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show whether gender roles, sexual satisfaction, or assertiveness caused any other factor. Participants were married women from family-planning units in one Iranian city, and sampling included a convenient sample within clusters, so results may not apply to other groups. Sexual information was self-reported, and the authors say this may limit expression of attitudes, values, and beliefs. The model explained 22% of the variance in sexual assertiveness, so many other factors were not captured. The authors used one question to assess appearance satisfaction because of questionnaire multiplicity, which may be less reliable than a structured measure.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that gender roles have no effect on sexual assertiveness. The study found no significant association in 118 married Iranian women, and its cross-sectional design cannot show cause.