Changes in Intimacy and Sexuality During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of Data from a Survey on Partnered Individuals in Eight European Countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F23%3A43920976" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/23:43920976 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-022-10035-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-022-10035-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-10035-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12119-022-10035-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Changes in Intimacy and Sexuality During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of Data from a Survey on Partnered Individuals in Eight European Countries
Original language description
This qualitative study explores experiences of intimacy and sexuality during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic of 3357 participants from Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, and Turkey. Data were collected through open-ended questions within a survey on sexuality during the pandemic. Based on a reflexive thematic analysis three themes occurred. The first theme No change was described by 41% when summarizing their sex life during the pandemic. The second theme Positive change was experienced by 25%, and the third theme Negative change by 21%. An overarching theme then emerged as: "Still the same trajectories, but the pandemic could be a catalyst for improved or worsened sex- life." For those intimate partnered individuals who already had problems with intimacy and sexuality before the COVID-19 pandemic it seemed to remain the same or deteriorated throughout the pandemic. For those with positive experiences of intimacy and sexuality before the COVID-19 pandemic it remained the same or improved throughout the pandemic. These findings are relevant for researchers and clinicians in developing preventive and supportive interventions in the context of crisis and social isolation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30301 - Social biomedical sciences (includes family planning, sexual health, psycho-oncology, political and social effects of biomedical research)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal
ISSN
1095-5143
e-ISSN
1936-4822
Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
693-714
UT code for WoS article
000874396000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85140825046