[Surveying the relationship between adult attachment style to parents with female sexual function]

ABSTRACT

Normal female sexual function has an important role in feel healthy and increasing quality of their life. Attitudes, tendencies and understanding of sexual partner in sexual relationship, can be accounted as some branches of attachment to parents. According to Bowlby's important theory about attachment and less access to studies that tested hypothesis derived from this theory about sexual problems, this research is accomplished to determine the relationship between adult attachment style to parents with female sexual function. This research is a kind of descriptive-correlation study, that 161 married women, between 15-44 years were selected by Ghaem Hospital and obstetricians' of offices, in Mashhad. Data were collected by questionnaires of adult scale of parental attachment during their childhood, and female sexual function index. Data were analyzed by SPSS using liner regression; confidence coefficient was considered 95%. The entire domain of sexual function except sexual lubrication were related to secure attachment style to mother and all the domain of sexual function except sexual painless was negatively related to distant attachment style to father [P<0.05] Maternal secure attachment and paternal insecure distant attachment play important role in adulthood sexual function in the adulthood which is in agreement to Bowlby's findings: