Saturday, 15 January 2005 - 12:00 PM

This presentation is part of: Poster Session II

Sexual Satisfaction of Married Women in South Korea

Sexual Satisfaction of Married Women in South Korea Abstract

A mumber of researchers have sought to identify the factors that have a positive or negative on sexual satisfaction among married persons. Clinical literature suggests that sexual satisfaction may be influenced by multiple factors. This study examined factors influencing sexual satisfation of married women in South Korea. Upon exploration of these issues, marital satisfaction, conjugal communication, decision making, division of household tasks, relationship with current family, relationship with spouse's family, the number of years of marriage, ages, income, educational level were hypothesized to be predictors of sexual satisfaction among married women in South Korea. Using snowball, convenient, and purposeful sampling methods, a sample of 530 married women in South Korea completed survey. The survey included items measuring demographic characteristics, sexual satisfaction(Index of Sexual Satisfaction), marital satisfaction(Kansas Marital Satisfaction), communication problems(Conjugal Understanding Measure), division of household tasks(Task Participation Index)), and decision making power(Decision Power Index). Multiple regression analyses indicated that marital satisfaction, conjugal communication, relationship with current family, and the number of years of marriage were significantly associated with sexual satisfaction of married women in South Korea, explaining 25.8% of the variance in the sexual satisfaction score. Marital satisfaction accounted for 17.5% of the variability in wives' sexual satisfaction and the strongest effect on wives' sexual satisfaction. Conjugal communication was the second most important variable to predict the wives' sexual satisfaction. It accounted for 5.9% of the variance of the sexual satisfaction. The relationship with current family was the third significant variable to account for the variance of sexual satisfaction of married women and accounted for 1.3% of the variance. As the least predictor, the number of years of marriage explained 1.1% of the variance of the marital satisfaction of married women. The findings of the present study suggest several implications for future research. One principal finding was the important role of marital satisfaction in sexual satisfaction of married women in South Korea. Future studies might explore this factor further. This study found the importance of conjugal communication in sexual satisfaction among Korean married women. This result suggests the importance of enhancing couples' communication skills. Finally, When social workers and family therapists deal with Korean married women, they need to investigate the relationship with current family

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