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.
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