Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/226369 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 720
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
Sexual well-being plays an important role in the quality of life. Against this background, we provide an economics-based approach to the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and various dimensions of sexuality. From a theoretical viewpoint, personality influences sexual well-being not only by how a person feels about sex, but also by how the person behaves in a sexual relationship. Personality shapes information sharing about sexual preferences, the way dissonant sexual preferences of the partners are handled, and the extent to which the person is committed to promises made to the partner. Using a large representative dataset from Germany, we find that personality traits play a role in a person's own sexual satisfaction, in (the self-assessment of) fulfilling the partner's sexual needs and desires, in sexual communication, in actual and desired frequency of sex, and in extradyadic affairs.
Subjects: 
Big Five Personality Traits
Sexual Satisfaction
Frequency of Intercourse
Sexual Infidelity
Sexual Communication
Family Economics
JEL: 
D10
D91
J10
J12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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