Self-Reported Psychosexual Lifestyles of University Students in Southwestern Nigeria: Implication for Professional Counseling Practice
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Human sexuality is generally described as the sum total of manner through which people experience and
articulate their sexual sensation. Consequent upon the fact that interest in sexual engagement typically increases at
puberty considerable research has been conducted on human sexuality among university students. However, most
of these studies have their focus on premarital sexual behaviour, knowledge and attitudes towards sex, high risk
sexual behaviour, and contraceptive usage with restricted attention on socio-psychological aspects of sexual
behaviours. Recent developments in human sexual behaviour make it imperative for us to increase our knowledge
base about diverse aspects of human sexuality. On this premise, this paper investigated twelve psychosexual
construct of 608 university students in Nigeria as well as established gender differences in their sexual esteem and
depression. Descriptive survey design was adopted and Multidimensional Sexuality Questionnaire (MSQ), was used
to gather data. One research question and one research hypothesis guided the study. Descriptive statistics analysis
indicated that the participants reported higher mean scores for psychosexual constructs of sexual esteem,
satisfaction, internal control, consciousness, assertiveness, external control, and motivation respectively and lower
mean ratings for sexual depression, monitoring, preoccupation, anxiety, and fear of sex in that order. Further
analysis showed that there were no significant differences on sexual esteem and depression of the participants on
gender basis. It is recommended among others that counsellors should therefore broaden sexual recovery
psychotherapeutic intervention programmes that will further enhance greater or lesser self report as the case may be
on university students’ psychosexual lifestyles
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BF Psychology