The Comparison of affective-emotional temperament in women with and without sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder

affective-emotional temperament in women with and without sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder. The research was a descriptive causal-comparative study. For this purpose, 65 women with sexual desire /arousal disorders and 85 women without disorders were selected purposefully among all women who attended a stadium in Rasht city in 2018-19. To collect data, women’s sexual interest and desire questionnaire (sills et al, 2005), clinical interview based on DSM-5 criteria, Affective and Emotional Composite Temperament Questionnaire (Lara et al., 2012), and General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1979) was used. The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that women with the sexual interest/arousal disorder had the more emotional temperament of anxiety, depression, cyclothymia, dysphoria, volatility, and less euthymia and euphoria. Furthermore, in the emotional temperament, they have less volition, coping, and control than the non-disorder group. There was no difference between Apathy, obsessive, irritability, disinhibited, and euphoria (affective temperament), anger, inhibition, and sensitivity (emotional temperament) between the two groups. Based on these findings it can be concluded that affective-emotional temperament can be effective in the formation and exacerbation of sexual arousal disorder in women. These findings can help the discussion of the pathology, education, and treatment of these women.