Positive and negative sexual cognitions: Subjective experience and relationships to sexual adjustment

摘要: Some individuals appraise their sexual cognitions negatively and/or experience negative affect in association with cognitions. However, sex researchers have tended to subsume different types of under the term fantasy and assumed that these are positively experienced. The purpose this study was clarify past research on sexual‐cognitions by exploring distinction between perceived as positive those negative. Two‐hundred ninety‐two (148 women 144 men) heterosexual undergraduate students completed a 56‐item cognition checklist along measures adjustment. Results revealed compared cognitions, were associated more affect, less frequent subjective general physiological arousal, self‐reported upset stomach. In addition, ...