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Human identity versus gender identity: The perception of sexual addiction among Iranian women.
- Source :
- Health Care for Women International; Jul2017, Vol. 38 Issue 7, p732-752, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This qualitative study was conducted to explore the images of personal identity from the perspective of women with sexual addiction. The data required for the study were collected through 31 in-depth interviews. Sensing a threat to personal identity, dissatisfaction with gender identity, dissociation with the continuum of identity, and identity reconstruction in response to threat were four of the experiences that were common among women with sexual addiction. Painful emotional experiences appear to have created a sense of gender and sexual conflict or weakness in these women and thus threatened their personal identity and led to their sexual addiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SEX addiction
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
BEHAVIOR
CONTENT analysis
DISCRIMINATION (Sociology)
EMOTIONS
FEAR
GENDER identity
GROUP identity
INTERVIEWING
LONELINESS
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
SELF-perception
SEXUAL orientation
WOMEN'S health
QUALITATIVE research
JUDGMENT sampling
FEMININITY
DATA analysis software
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07399332
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Care for Women International
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123476942
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2017.1322594