Analysis of Some Factors in Predicting Sexual Satisfaction

In this study, the role of sociodemographical characteristics, beliefs and attitudes towards marriage, sexual myths and level of knowledge on sexual satisfaction of newly-married couples attending “premarital sexual counselling program”. the sample of the research was consisted of 36 couples in experimental group, and 35 couples in control group. identifying characteristics of the individuals form”, “beliefs and attitudes towards marriage scale; the health-belief model”, “sexual myths evaluation form”, “evaluation form for identifying level of knowledge of sexual issues (pretest posttest)”, “golombok-rust sexual satisfaction sca –female and male form”, were used as data collecting instruments. “premarital sexual counselling program” was given to the experimental group after basic data were collected from both groups. in the experimental group, average ages were 27.08±3.81 and 29.36±4.98 in women and men, respectively. in the control group, average ages were 26±3.45 and 29.85±5.16 in women and men, respectively. in the research, 55.6% of the individuals in experimental group and 47.1% of the individuals in control group were graduates of college/school of a university. although the total variance explaining the sociodemographical characteristics of women was comparatively low, especially the variable of education is important with a positive effect on men. it was found out that beliefs and attitudes towards marriage and sexual myths increased the variance in identifying sexual satisfaction. it was determined that increase in the knowledge levels in the experimental group attending sexual counselling training had an important role in predicting sexual satisfaction.