Childhood Interpersonal Trauma and Sexual Satisfaction in Patients Seeing Sex Therapy: Examining Mindfulness and Psychological Distress as Mediators

Figures & data

Table 1. Descriptive data (mean and standard deviation) by number of childhood traumas.

Number of childhood traumas			Mindfulness (range 15 to 90*)		Psychological distress (range 0 to 42*)		Sexual satisfaction (range 5 to 35*)
	n	%	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
0	23	5.6	74.5	10.29	9.13	7.27	27.52	7.65
1	43	10.5	69.5	10.64	11.15	7.19	21.35	6.87
2	63	15.4	65.81	15.04	11.78	8.42	23.33	7.43
3	59	14.4	63.65	11.19	13.20	7.91	20.91	7.90
4	58	14.1	61.54	13.13	17.15	9.06	18.39	7.69
5	60	14.6	57.16	12.19	17.17	8.80	18.64	7.43
6	62	15.1	57.53	14.09	15.79	9.07	18.95	7.79
7	34	8.3	57.48	12.41	17.82	9.81	19.91	8.01
8	8	2.0	49.88	15.91	19.63	12.50	16.88	8.97

Notes. *Possible range for the total score.

Table 2. Prevalence of childhood interpersonal traumas according to gender.

Variables	Total		Women		Men
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Childhood sexual abuse	121	40.5	88	53.3	33	24.6
Parental psychological violence	255	62.8	145	64.7	109	60.2
Parental physical violence	199	49.0	110	49.1	89	49.2
Parental physical neglect	97	23.7	45	20	51	28.2
Parental psychological neglect	301	74.1	171	76.3	129	71.3
Exposure to interparental psychological violence	172	58.3	102	62.6	70	53
Exposure to interparental physical violence	55	18.6	38	23.2	17	12.9
Peer bullying	269	66.3	141	62.7	127	70.6

Table 3. Correlations among study variables.

Variables	M	SD	1.	2.	3.	4.
1. CCT	3.79	2.09	—
2. Psychological distress	14.57	9.0	.28***	—
3. Mindfulness	62.37	13.88	−.38**	−.50***	—
4. Sexual satisfaction	20.57	7.93	−.24***	−.36***	.37***	—

Notes. CCT = childhood cumulative trauma.

Figure 1. The mediating role of psychological distress and mindfulness in the association between CCT and sexual satisfaction.

Notes: CCT = Childhood cumulative trauma *p < .05, **p < .01, *** p =.001.