Results
Descriptive findings regarding the sexual function and its components, awareness of the moment, genital image and its components, and sexual anxiety were presented in Table 1.
Table 1. Descriptive findings of sexual function and its components, awareness of moment, genital image and its components, and sexual anxiety
Based on the proposed model, sexual function is considered as an endogenous variable, genital self-image and sexual anxiety as an exogenous variable, and the awareness of the moment as a mediator. In using the structural equation modeling method, it is necessary to examine the assumptions before data analysis. In this research, some of the most important assumptions of structural equation modeling method including missing data, outlier data, multivariate normality and multicollinearity were checked. Results showed that all the assumptions were confirmed. Also, the results of the normality data test are presented in Table 2. As can be seen in Table 2, the assumption of normality for all variables was confirmed. The correlation matrix of the research variables is presented in Table 3.
Table 2 . Kolmogorov–Smirnov test results for data normality
Table 3. Correlation coefficients among sexual function, awareness of the moment, genital self-image and sexual anxiety