Predicting Sexual Performance Based on Parenting Styles and Sexual Education Styles with the Mediating Role of Anxiety in Married Women

Objective: Family dynamics play a significant role in establishing emotional relationships among its members and fostering psychological well-being, which extends to individual and collective members' peace of mind. This study aimed to investigate the impact of parenting styles and sexual education styles of parents, with anxiety as a mediating variable, on the sexual performance of married women.Method: The study population consisted of married women who presented with sexual dysfunction at psychiatric and women's clinics in Tehran. Since the minimum number of samples in structural equation modeling is ۲۰۰ individuals, ۲۰۰ individuals were selected through convenience sampling. The research instruments included Baumrind's Parenting Styles Scale (۱۹۷۲), Parental Sexual Education Styles Scale (۲۰۱۰), Beck Anxiety Scale (۱۹۹۰), and Rosen et al.'s Sexual Performance Scale (۲۰۰۰). Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the data.Results: The findings of the present study showed that anxiety does not have a mediating effect on the effect of parents' strict sexual education style on the sexual performance of married women, but it has a complete mediating effect on the sexual performance of married women in the authoritative sexual education style of parents. Also, anxiety has a partial mediating effect on the impact of parents' authoritarian parenting style on married women's sexual performance, and it does not have a mediating effect on the parents' authoritarian parenting style on married women's sexual performance (p > ۰.۰۵).Conclusion: The study concludes that the sexual performance of married women is significantly influenced by the styles of parenting and sexual education they received, with anxiety playing varied mediating roles. An authoritative approach to sexual education, coupled with parenting styles that manage to reduce anxiety, tends to enhance sexual performance in women.

کلیدواژه ها:

Anxiety ، Health ، Parental Sexual Education Styles ، Parenting Styles ، sexual function