Nurgul Şimal Yavuz, Zehra Gölbaşı
Lokman Hekim Health Sciences - 2025;5(3):312-318
The quality of sexual life is an expression of satisfaction with sexual life. When lived in a healthy way, it positively affects women's general quality of life and mental well-being. Sexual life quality is a multidimensional concept affected by many biological, psychological and social factors. Healthy lifestyle behaviors are behavioral patterns that constitute the lifestyle that an individual consciously prefers in order to ensure his/her biological, psychological, physiological and social well-being. The World Health Organization recommends promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors to reduce preventable health problems and increase positive behaviors. Healthy lifestyle behaviors contribute positively to many biological, social and psychological health parameters of individuals. At this point, the effect on sexual health, which is one of the basic life functions of the person, should be evaluated. It is thought that individuals' preference for a healthy lifestyle in their lives and living in line with this goal have an effect on their sexual quality. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between healthy lifestyle behaviors and the quality of sexual life of women of reproductive age. In this study, it was determined that women had a high level of sexual quality. The women participating in this study have a moderate level of healthy lifestyle behaviors. This study found a statistically significant but weak to moderate positive relationship between healthy lifestyle behaviors and sexual quality of life and its sub-dimensions. Although these correlations are modest in strength, they suggest that improvements in health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, stress management, interpersonal relationships, and spiritual development may contribute to better sexual well-being among women. The relatively weak associations indicate that sexual quality of life is a multidimensional construct, influenced not only by lifestyle behaviors but also by psychological, social, and cultural factors. According to regression analysis, healthy lifestyle behaviors significantly predict sexual quality of life. The explained variance of the model was found to be 12%. This rate supports the effect of healthy lifestyle behaviors on sexual life quality, but also draws attention to the multidimensional structure of sexual life quality affected by different variables. It is a remarkable finding that the spiritual development sub-dimension was a significant predictor in both correlation and multiple regression analyses. This finding suggests that aspects like women's inner peace, self-actualization, life meaning, spiritual satisfaction, and value systems may closely relate to their perceptions and satisfaction with their sexual lives.
