Adult attachment, sexual satisfaction, and relationship satisfaction: A study of married couples

By B. Butzer, L. Campbell. 2008

478 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Kristen P. Mark
2. Gurit E. Birnbaum

In Social Psychology

1. Robin S. Edelstein
2. A. Moors
3. William J. Chopik
4. Terri D. Conley
5. Kristen P. Mark
6. Gurit E. Birnbaum
7. R. Kahalon
8. Peter Glick

In Sociology and Political Science

1. A. Moors
2. Nurit Shnabel
3. Kristen P. Mark
4. Gurit E. Birnbaum
5. William J. Chopik
6. R. Kahalon
7. Peter Glick
8. Terri D. Conley

Citations in the corpus

• The relative impact of individual sexual desire and couple desire discrepancy on satisfaction in heterosexual couples (2012, background): “Clinicians and scholars alike have long supported the link between sexual and relationship satisfaction (Butzer & Campbell, 2008 ; Byers, 2005 ; Christopher & Sprecher, 2000 ) and many have acknowledged that these two constructs are impacted by other variables such as individual sexual desire (By”
• Bound to interact: The divergent goals and complex interplay of attachment and sex within romantic relationships (2010, background): “Attachment and sex within a relational context Recent studies have shown that the sexual and attachment systems not only mutually influence each other, but also contribute jointly to relationship quality and stability (Birnbaum et al., 2006; Butzer & Campbell, 2008).”
• Attached to monogamy? Avoidance predicts willingness to engage (but not actual engagement) in consensual non-monogamy (2015, background): “Taken together, these findings suggest that attachment security is beneficial for establishing happy, healthy, and sexually satisfying long-term romantic relationships (e.g., Birnbaum, 2007; Butzer & Campbell, 2008; Davis et al., 2006).”
• The Madonna-Whore Dichotomy: Men Who Perceive Women's Nurturance and Sexuality as Mutually Exclusive Endorse Patriarchy and Show Lower Relationship Satisfaction (2018, background): “Thus, we expected men’s MWD endorsement to correlate positively with diminished sexual and, consequently, relationship satisfaction (see Butzer and Campbell 2008; Byers 2005; Heiman et al. 2011; Sprecher 2002; Sprecher and Cate 2004, for the link between sexual and relationship satisfaction)…”