Satysfakcja seksualna i samoocena a poczucie jakości życia

Abstract

Numerous studies have shown that sexual satisfaction and self-esteem are strongly related and that they significantly condition a sense of quality of life. The article presents the results of the authors study, which aim was to establish the relation between sexual satisfaction, self-esteem and sense of quality of life for people in they early adulthood. The study sample consisted of 51 men and 49 women aged from 23 to 35 years old, employed and remain in childless informal relationships since at least one year. The Questionnaire of Sexual Satisfaction (author’s method), Self-Esteem Scale by M. Rosenberg and the Questionnaire of Quality of Life by M. Straś-Romanowska were used in the measurement. Results indicate that sexual satisfaction and self-esteem are related and they are predictors of the sense of quality of life. Self-esteem is associated significantly with the global assessment of quality of life and its various spheres – psychophysical, psychosocial, subjective, metaphysical. There is also significant correlation between sexual satisfaction and sense of quality of life. It turned out that there is a significant sex difference between the strength of correlation between sexual satisfaction and the global quality of life and its various spheres. Contrary to stereotypes, this relationship is stronger in women.