How attachment, personality, and sexual self-schema influence sexual behavior

Thesis (M.A., Psychology (Counseling Psychology))--California State University, Sacramento, 2012.People engage in sexual behaviors that vary in commitment from committed relationships to friends with benefits, to booty calls, to one night stands. The theoretical perspectives of attachment, personality, and sexual self-schema suggest that the motives for engaging in these types of relationships may be large in number and psychologically complex. In the present study, analysis of data from 228 university students revealed that individuals with a more secure attachment style, with a more extraverted personality type, and with a higher sexual self-schema engaged in a greater variety of sexual relationships. Insights generated from the present study are useful for marriage and family therapists when formulating relationship advice and interventions promoting more stable relationships.Psychology (Counseling Psychology