The Mosher Forced Choice Guilt Scale as a measure of anxiety.
Women divided into two levels of sex-guilt were administered the Word Association Test under three different conditions. In the first a confederate modeled sexual responses, in the second a confederate modeled nonsexual responses, and in the third condition no confederate was present. The results indicated that both low- and high-guilt women made significantly more sexual responses when exposed to the sexual model than in the nonsexual or no-model conditions. The results were interpreted as supporting an avoidant-anxiety conceptualization of guilt as opposed to Mosher's preservation of self-esteem view.
D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014936:Word Association Tests