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Arch Sex Behav (2007) 36:357–368 DOI 10.1007/s10508-006-9071-1 ORIGINAL PAPER In the Mood for Love or Vice Versa? Exploring the Relations Among Sexual Activity, Physical Affection, Affect, and Stress in the Daily Lives of Mid-Aged Women Mary H. Burleson · Wenda R. Trevathan · Michael Todd Received: 14 September 2005 / Revised: 20 February 2006 / Accepted: 1 May 2006 / Published online: 16 November 2006 C Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2006 Abstract How do physical affection, sexual activity, mood, Keywords Sexual behavior . Mood . Mid-aged women . and stress influence one another in the daily lives of mid- Physical affection . Daily diary aged women? Fifty-eight women (M age, 47.6 yrs) recorded physical affection, several different sexual behaviors, stress- Introduction ful events, and mood ratings every morning for 36 weeks. Using multilevel modeling, we determined that physical af- Although conventional wisdom holds that a satisfactory sex- fection or sexual behavior with a partner on one day signifi- ual interaction will improve mood, little empirical evidence cantly predicted lower negative mood and stress and higher exists to support this assumption. Surprisingly few studies positive mood on the following day. The relation did not hold have investigated relations between sexual activity or physi- for orgasm without a partner. Additionally, positive mood on cal intimacy and affect, and most address the issue of whether one day predicted more physical affection and sexual ac- mood (or mood disorder) affects sexual desire or arousal. To tivity with a partner, but fewer solo orgasms the following our knowledge, none have asked whether sexual activity or day. Negative mood was mostly unrelated to next-day sexual physical affection alters affective state or perceived stress on