Komunikacja i bliskość a satysfakcja seksualna małżonków

The subject of the presented analyzes is communication and closeness versus sexual satisfaction among married people. The aim of the research was to check the connection between the independent variables–communication and closeness and the dependent variable – sexual satisfaction. 116 people were examined, aged from 20 to 63 years old, who have been married for between 1 month and 35 years. The Kaźmierczak and Plopa’s Communication in Marriage Questionnaire has been used for the measurements (2008), Ryś’s Marital Intimacy Scale (1998) and Plopa’s Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire (2017). Communication in the areas of support and commitment shows a positive connection with sexual satisfaction in the areas of caressing, closeness and sex, while depreciation in the spouses’ communication shows a negative connection with sexual satisfaction. Emotional, intellectual and action-based closeness are also positively related to sexual satisfaction. Additionally, emotional and action-based closeness turned out to be mediators of the connection between communication and sexual satisfaction. The research results allow us to conclude that the spouses’ communication and closeness play an important role in their sexual satisfaction. The discussion on the mediating role of emotional and action-based closeness on the connection between communication and sexual satisfaction emphasizes the nonverbal nature of the above phenomena.