One Line of Sexual Decline? Growth Mixture Modeling for Midlife Sexual Satisfaction.
Most research has shown that sexual satisfaction in long-term relationships tends to decline over time. Studies showing the average trajectory, however, are limited by only assessing one slope. With longitudinal data from the Flourishing Families Project, Marital Instability Dataset, and the Iowa Yo...
| Published in: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 2641 - 2666 |
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