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Description: The proposed study focuses on the possible moderating function of sexual sanctification on the association between sexual and relationship satisfaction. Past research on sanctification has focused on the direct association between domain sanctification and domain satisfaction. The proposed study examines the purported moderation function of sanctification. At higher levels of sexual sanctification, the well-known positive association between sexual and relationship satisfaction is expected to be stronger in comparison with lower levels of sanctification. An online questionnaire including measures of sexual and relationship satisfaction, sexual sanctification, social desirability, religious behavior, and demographic items will be administered to a sample consisting of 650 men and 650 women residing in Israel, married for at least a year, and identifying as being Jewish. The sample will include individuals identifying as being Religious, Traditional-Religious, Traditional-Secular, and Secular in equal proportions. The SPSS macro PROCESS (Hayes, 2017) will be used to test for the moderation effect separately for men and for women. In these analyses, age, social desirability, and religiousness will be controlled for.