ABSTRACT

Although not all couples achieve high levels of sexual satisfaction during pregnancy, evidence of variability in couple sexual satisfaction during pregnancy indicates that sexual dissatisfaction in pregnancy does not apply to all. Subsequently, the current study examined whether a nationally representative U.S. sample of wives and husbands (N = 523 couples) fell into subgroups in terms of their sexual satisfaction during pregnancy and to what degree biopsychosocial factors distinguish potential subgroups. Latent profile analyses, adjusted for pregnancy-related biological factors, indicated that couples could be classified into two subsets – a larger subset of couples where wives and husbands were satisfied with sex overall (79%) and a smaller subset where wives and husbands were neutral about satisfaction with sex (21%). Lower depressive symptoms among wives was associated with a greater likelihood of being in the more satisfied subset over the less satisfied subset – the only significant group membership predictor among a variety of other factors. Implications include notions that couples and practitioners should consider women’s depressive symptoms throughout pregnancy in addition to the perinatal period, and that most U.S. newly married pregnant couples do well navigating sexual satisfaction challenges during pregnancy.

摘要

虽然并非所有夫妇在怀孕期间都能获得高水平的性满足，但有证据表明怀孕期间夫妇性满足的变化表明怀孕期间的性不满足并不适用于所有人。随后，本研究检验了具有全国代表性的美国妻子和丈夫样本（N= 523 对夫妇）根据怀孕期间的性满意度以及生物心理社会因素区分潜在亚组的程度分为亚组。对与怀孕相关的生物学因素进行调整的潜在概况分析表明，夫妻可以分为两个子集——较大的夫妻子集，其中妻子和丈夫对性的总体满意（79%）和较小的子集，其中妻子和丈夫是中性的关于对性的满意度（21%）。妻子中较低的抑郁症状与较不满意的子集相比更满意的子集的可能性更大 - 这是各种其他因素中唯一重要的群体成员预测因子。