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ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2021

Comparing the Self-Reported Health, Happiness, and Marital Happiness of a Multinational Sample of Consensually Non-Monogamous Adults with Those of the U.S. General Population: Additional Comparisons by Gender, Number of Sexual Partners, Frequency of Sex, and Marital Status.

Derrell W Cox, James R Fleckenstein, Lori R Sims-Cox

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Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM) - Considering Sexual Minorities and Moving Away from a Dyadic Conceptualization.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Derrell W CoxIntegrated Research Institute, Tulsa, OK, 73072, USA. derrell@integratedresearch.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8066-7643
James R FleckensteinIndependent Researcher, Manassas, VA, USA.
Lori R Sims-CoxIntegrated Research Institute, Tulsa, OK, 73072, USA.
Integrated Oncology (United States) · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The primary objective of this cross-sectional study was to examine the associations of self-reported health, happiness, marital happiness, frequency of sexual activity, and number of partners from a multinational survey of individuals who are consensually non-monogamous (CNM) or open to being CNM, completed in 2012 with 4062 respondents. We compared data from this survey with the 2010-2014 US General Social Surveys (GSS). This study explored these variables and their predictors by gender (including 612 non-binary-gendered CNM individuals), marital status, number of partners, sexual frequency, age, education, and income and were broken down by behavioral sexual orientation, marital status, and other relevant categories. Respondents in our CNM sample generally reported being as healthy (sometimes healthier; e.g., all respondents M-W Z = 7.66, p < .001, η

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MarriageSexual PartnersAdultCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHappinessHumansMaleMarital StatusSelf ReportSexual BehaviorConsensual non-monogamyHappinessHealthMarital happinessSexual frequencySexual partners

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