caa a22 4500 606231064 CHVBK 20210128101218.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0426-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0426-8 Individual and Partner Correlates of Sexual Satisfaction and Relationship Happiness in Midlife Couples: Dyadic Analysis of the International Survey of Relationships [Elektronische Daten] [William Fisher, Kelly Donahue, J. Long, Julia Heiman, Raymond Rosen, Michael Sand] The current research reports a dyadic analysis of sexual satisfaction, relationship happiness, and correlates of these couple outcomes in a large multinational dataset consisting of 1,009 midlife heterosexual couples (2,018 individuals) recruited in Japan, Brazil, Germany, Spain, and the United States (Heiman et al., 2011). Actor-Partner Interdependence Models (Kenny, Kashy, & Cook, 2006) identified correlates of sexual satisfaction that included individuals' reports of good health; frequent kissing, cuddling, and caressing; frequent recent sexual activity; attaching importance to one's own and one's partner's orgasm; better sexual functioning; and greater relationship happiness. Even after controlling for individual-level effects, partners' reports of good health; frequent kissing, cuddling, and caressing; frequent recent sexual activity; attaching importance to one's own and one's partner's orgasm; better sexual functioning; and greater relationship happiness contributed significantly to predicting and understanding individuals' sexual satisfaction. Correlates of relationship happiness included individuals' reports of good health; frequent kissing, cuddling, and caressing; frequent recent sexual activity; attaching importance to one's own and one's partner's orgasm; better sexual functioning; and greater sexual satisfaction, and once again, even after controlling for individual-level effects, partners' reports of each of these correlates contributed significantly to predicting and understanding individuals' relationship happiness. Interactions of individual and partner effects with participant gender are also reported. Current results demonstrate empirically that the partner "matters” to an individual's sexual satisfaction and relationship happiness and indicate that a comprehensive understanding of factors contributing to these couple outcomes requires a couple-level research strategy. Partner effects, even when controlling for individual effects, were consistently observed, and explanation of sexual satisfaction and relationship happiness always depended on identifying and understanding mutual and concurrent individual and partner influences. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Sexual satisfaction nationallicence Relationship happiness nationallicence Dyadic analysis nationallicence Fisher William Department of Psychology and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5C2, London, ON, Canada aut Donahue Kelly Department of Pediatrics, Section of Adolescent Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA aut Long J. Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA aut Heiman Julia Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA aut Rosen Raymond New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA, USA aut Sand Michael New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA, USA aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1609-1620 0004-0002 44:6<1609 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0426-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0426-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fisher William Department of Psychology and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5C2, London, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Donahue Kelly Department of Pediatrics, Section of Adolescent Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Long J. Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Heiman Julia Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rosen Raymond New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sand Michael New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1609-1620 0004-0002 44:6<1609 2015 44 10508