Maternidad, distress sexual y su relación con la autoestima y las actitudes hacia la sexualidad en una muestra de mujeres colombianas durante el periodo de confinamiento obligatorio por la pandemia del Covid-19

Gómez Lugo, Mayra Alejandra | 2021

In the context of lockdown cause of COVID-19, women have experienced affectation in their sexual lifes. The objective is to evaluate if there are differences of sexual distress in female population, and to evaluate relationships between self-esteem and sexual attitudes during mandatory lockdown by COVID-19. The sample consisted of 505 colombian women and the instruments were the Body Self-esteem Scale, The Female Sexual Distress Scale, Sexuality Scale, Sexual Opinion Survey-6, and The Rosenberg Self-esteem were used. The study found that mothers have higher levels of sexual and general self-esteem, women without children have higher levels of sexual distress and they have a greater tendency to erotophilia. The conclusion is that motherhood is not a risk factor to low levels of self-esteem or sexual ambit, particulary during the lockdown period