The Sexual Desire Conflict Scale for Women: construction, internal consistency, and two initial validity tests.
The development of a 33-item Sexual Desire Conflict Scale for Women is described. The scale was designed to measure women's experiences of subjective discomfort and conflict in relation to sexual desire. 54 women participated: 18 survivors of childhood sexual abuse, 18 survivors of nonsexual trauma, 18 controls with no histories of trauma. Three factors accounted for 25.6, 12.9 and 7.6% of the variance. While no social desirability confounding was detected, the three groups had very different scores. Suggestions for research and clinical application are made.
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Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Beth Israel Hospital.
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007989:Libido; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D015203:Reproducibility of Results