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The relationship between women's subjective and physiological sexual arousal
Author(s) -
Rellini Alessandra H.,
McCall Katie M.,
Randall Patrick K.,
Meston Cindy M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2005.00259.x
Subject(s) - psychology , arousal , sexual arousal , concordance , association (psychology) , multilevel model , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , statistics , medicine , mathematics
Previous literature presents discordant results on the relationship between physiological and subjective sexual arousal in women. In this study, the use of hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) revealed a significant concordance between continuous measures of physiological and subjective sexual arousal as assessed during exposure to erotic stimuli in a laboratory setting. We propose that past studies that have found little or no association between the two measures may have been in part limited by the methodology and statistical analyses employed.