129: Promoting Relational and Sexual Wellness: Implications in Individual and Couple Contexts

Rebecca Clarke; David B. Allsop; Amber Price; Veronica Hanna-Walker

2:30 PM
3:45 PM
Location
Virtual
Session #
129
Session Type
Symposium
Session Focus
  • Research
Organized By
  • Families & Health
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About the Session

Concurrent Sessions 3 - (NBCC CE Credit: #1 hr and Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

129-01: Newlywed Relational Satisfaction: Diverging Trajectories and Predictors
David B. Allsop, Dean M. Busby, Spencer L. James, Erin K. Holmes, Jeremy B. Yorgason

129-02: Passion For God and Passion For Sex: What Is the Connection?
Rebecca W. Clarke, Chelom E. Leavitt, Dean M. Busby

129-03: Being Mindful of Gender: Examining Gender Differences in Trait and Sexual Mindfulness
Amber Price, Chelom E. Leavitt, Erin K. Holmes

129-04: Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Creating a Meaning of Sex Measure
Veronica Hanna-Walker, Dean M. Busby

Discussants: David B. Allsop, Amber A. Price, Veronica Hanna-Walker
Chair
: Rebecca W. Clarke


Summary

The study of relationships and sexuality has typically been approached from a deficit perspective. Our symposium will instead examine how sexual mindfulness, sexual passion, religiosity, attachment, power, and sexual meaning can lead to relational and sexual wellness in couple contexts. The authors will discuss four areas of sexual and relational wellness. 1) Newlywed relational and sexual satisfaction trajectories, including patterns of change and contributors to relational satisfaction among. 2) The religion-sex connection through the Triadic Model of Sexual Passion in Relationships. 2) Exploring gender differences in maintaining awareness during sexual experiences, which may increase sexual satisfaction. 2) How searching for a meaning of sex and having a presence of meaning of sex interact and are associated with relationship satisfaction, relationship stability, and sexual satisfaction.

Objectives
-- Promote relational and sexual wellness and implications in individual and couple contexts.
-- Inform additional research about the importance of approaching relationships and sexuality from a wellness perspective.
-- Demonstrate wellness approaches to research on relationships and sexuality.

Subject Codes: relationships, sexuality, wellness
Population Codes: romantic partners, middle adulthood, heterosexual
Method and Approach Codes: quantitative methodology, longitudinal research, regression: linear (simple, multiple, hierarchical)

 

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