The role of performance anxiety in the development and maintenance of sexual dysfunction in men and womenInternational Journal of Stress Management 2005, Vol. 12, No.4, 379-388 Author Marita McCabe wrote this article to discuss an ongoing study focused on the association of attitudes toward sex regarding relationship quality, performance anxiety, stress and sexual dysfunction (McCabe 2005 p. 379). The study results demonstrated related types of sexual dysfunction among a group of men and women. The article begins by explaining sexual response cycles by breaking them down into four stages. The four stages are desire, arousal, orgasm and resolution (McCabe p. 380). McCabe said most sexual dysfunction occurs during the first three stages of the sexual response cycle. Performance anxiety occurs in both men and women and causes obsessive concerns about their sexual performance and can become the leading cause of sexual disorders and/or dysfunction (McCabe p. 380; Masters & Johnson 1970). The objective of this Journal article is to determine...