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The Focusing of Mental Attention During Sexual Intercourse and the Ability to Achieve Orgasm in Women
Hůtová, Lucie ; Weiss, Petr (advisor) ; Děchtěrenko, Filip (referee)
The present thesis focuses on the relationship between cognitive distractions and female ability to achieve orgasm and female sexual function. The theoretical part summarises current knowledge about female sexual response, the ability to achieve orgasm and explains the concept of cognitive distractions in the context of the spectatoring theory and cognitive interference. The empirical part is split into two phases. First one describes the process of creation, pilot measurements and psychometric evaluation of own measuring tool, Cognitive distractions questionnaire (Dotazník kognitivních distraktorů, DKD). It presents three independent subscales - sexual behavior (DKD-S), negative body image (DKD- B) and bad timing (DKD-C). All subscales were evauated via confirmatory factorial analysis and showed good reliability. The second phase was designed as an explorative correlation study. It focused on finding a relationship between distractions of each subscale of DKD and female ability to achieve orgasm, which was measured with Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI, Rosen et al., 2000). Data was collected via a snowball method with an online questionnaire. Sample consisted of 352 women in the age between 18 and 56 years. Spearman correlation indicated a negative relationship between distractions of sexual...
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