Comparison of anxiety tolerance and sexual intimacy in working and housewives in Shiraz

Abstract

The present study aimed to compare distress tolerance and sexual intimacy in working women and housewives in Shiraz. The research method was a descriptive and causal-comparative type, and the statistical population of this research was all working women and housewives of Shiraz city in 2018; among them, 140 women (70 working women and 70 housewives) were selected in a targeted way and They responded to Bagarozzi's Intimacy Questionnaire and Simmons and Gaher's Distress Tolerance Questionnaire. The data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance and univariate analysis. The findings indicated that working women's distress tolerance and components (tolerance, evaluation, and regulation) were significantly higher than housewives. Also, the data showed that the sexual intimacy of working women was significantly lower than that of housewives. The findings of this research show that the sexual intimacy and stress tolerance of working women is much higher than that of housewives.