Cohen, D.L. and Belsky, Jay (2008) Avoidant romantic attachment and female orgasm: testing an emotion-regulation hypothesis. Attachment & Human Development 10 (1), pp. 1-10. ISSN 1461-6734.
Abstract
Recent research indicating that roughly a third of the variation in female orgasmic frequency is heritable leaves a substantial amount of non-heritable variation to be explained. Given that emotion regulation is central to attachment theory and that attachment insecurity in infancy and avoidance in adulthood are not heritable, it was predicted that (higher levels of) avoidance would predict (lower levels of) female orgasmic frequency. Results of an Internet survey of 323 women (mean age = 24.39 years) proved consistent with this hypothesis. Results are discussed in terms of developmental influence on adult reproductive behavior, evolution, and the characteristics of the sample.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | adult attachment, avoidant attachment, female orgasm, orgasmic frequency, reproductive strategies |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2011 12:23 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:52 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2292 |
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