Attachment-related anxiety is associated with poor genital satisfaction and sexual problems in women

BMC Women's Health

Table 1 Means and Spearman correlations (n = 294)

	M (SD); range	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1. Age	23.7 (3.4); 18–46	0.12*	0.08	0.02	− 0.03	0.08	0.13*	− 0.13*	− 0.08	− 0.07	− 0.04
2. Nationality^a			− 0.13*	− 0.01	0.02	0.07	0.00	− 0.08	− 0.04	− 0.02	0.05
3. Relationship status^b				0.02	− 0.33**	− 0.33**	0.01	0.02	0.16**	0.14*	− 0.03
4. Sexual orientation^c					− 0.07	− 0.03	0.01	0.01	0.07	0.15**	− 0.03
5. Anxiety	2.5 (1.5); 1–7					0.45**	− 0.19**	0.11	− 0.01	0.02	0.16**
6. Avoidance	1.6 (0.9); 1–7						− 0.17**	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.22**
7. Genital satisfaction	4.7 (1.2); 1–6							− 0.19**	− 0.25**	− 0.22**	− 0.22**
8. Pain	2.5 (2.4); 1–16								0.33**	0.26**	0.12*
9. Low sexual desire	3.2 (2.8); 1–16									0.44**	0.31**
10. Low sexual arousal	2.1 (2.0); 1–12										0.30**
11. Poor orgasmic sensations	2.8 (2.7); 1–16

^aThe baseline was Austrian = 1 (German = 2, Italian = 3, other = 4)
^bThe baseline was single = 1 (in relationship = 2)
^cThe baseline was heterosexual-identified = 1 (non-heterosexual-identified = 2)
*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01

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