Health Anxiety, Psychological Well-Being and Sexual Satisfaction in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The present study aims to identify and evaluate the relationship between health anxiety, psychological well-being and sexual satisfaction. The research was conducted online during the Covid-19 pandemic on a Romanian sample of 155 participants. The results confirmed strong correlations between health anxiety and psychological well-being and also between health anxiety and sexual satisfaction, as well as between psychological well-being and sexual satisfaction. According to previous studies, the present research confirmed psychological well-being to be a significant predictor of the individuals` sexual satisfaction. For the first time in the specialty literature, the results identified health anxiety as a significant negative predictor of sexual satisfaction level and psychological well-being.