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  1. Potential Mechanisms Through Which Sexual Sanctification May Influence Sexual Outcomes: Sexual Mindfulness, Sexual Intercourse Frequency, Sexual Communication, and Orgasmic Consistency

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  2. Power and passion: An exploration of the relationship between marital power processes and sexual passion styles

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, June 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  3. Physical Aspects of Sexuality, Attachment, and Sexual Satisfaction

    Article • Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, January 2025, Wiley

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  4. Is the association of sexual quality with relationship satisfaction really stronger when the sexual relationship is functioning poorly?

    Article • Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, December 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  5. Sexual satisfaction predicts future changes in relationship satisfaction and sexual frequency: New insights from within-person associations over time

    Article • Personality Science, October 2023, Leibniz-Institute of Psychology Information (ZPID)

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  6. Sexual beliefs in couple relationships: Exploring the pathways of mindfulness, communication, and sexual functioning on sexual passion and satisfaction

    Article • Family Process, July 2023, Wiley

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  7. Orgasm Consistency in Mixed-Gender Couples: Actor, Partner, and Discrepancy Effects from Dyadic Response Surface Analysis

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  8. Sexual passion in couple relationships: Emerging patterns from dyadic response surface analysis

    Article • Journal of Marriage and Family, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  9. Parental Sexual Passion and Parent-Child Communication About Sex

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  10. The Need for Sexual Wholeness: Linking Self-Determination Theory to the Physical, Emotional, and Meaning Aspects of Sex

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  11. The Loss in Connection with Catastrophes (LICCS) Scale: Understanding couple outcomes

    Article • Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, April 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  12. Health, depression, and marital processes as they relate to sexual satisfaction and harmonious sexual passion: a biopsychosocial model

    Article • Sexual & Relationship Therapy, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Dean M Busby, David Allsop

  13. Religious Piety and Sexual Passion: What Is the Connection?

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  14. Sanctification or inhibition? Religious dualities and sexual satisfaction.

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, June 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Nathan Leonhardt, Dr. Dean M Busby

  15. The sexual wholeness model: An initial evaluation with two samples

    Article • Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, May 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  16. Beliefs about sexuality and their associations with sexual passion

    Article • Personal Relationships, January 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  17. Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Evaluating a General Meaning of Sex Measure

    Article • Family Process, January 2021, Wiley

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  18. Mirror, mirror on the wall: The effect of listening to body positive music on implicit and explicit body esteem.

    Article • Psychology of Popular Media, January 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  19. Sexual Passion and Attachment: Sexual Passion Style as a Mediator between Attachment Insecurity and Sexual Satisfaction in Committed Relationships

    Article • Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, September 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  20. A closer look at attachment, sexuality, and couple relationships

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  21. A Closer Look at Sexual Passion in Relationships

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  22. Comparing the influence of romantic, sexual, and cohabitation histories on relationship quality

    Article • Couple and Family Psychology Research and Practice, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Dean M Busby

  23. Women have different sexual arousal patterns and most are linked with healthy outcomes

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Chelom Leavitt, Dr. Dean M Busby, Nathan Leonhardt

  24. Predicting Partner Enhancement in Marital Relationships: The Family of Origin, Attachment, and Social Network Approval

    Article • Journal of Family Issues, December 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Dean M Busby