Assessing intimacy with the best friend and the sexual partner during adolescence: the PAIR-M inventory (Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationship).
The present study had 3 goals: (a) to provide a preliminary investigation of the dimensions involved in the capacity for intimacy toward the best friend and the sexual partner during adolescence; (b) to determine whether the specific areas of the capacity for intimacy toward the best friend are the same as toward the sexual partner; and (c) to consider the usefulness of conceiving the capacity for intimacy as a multidimensional concept. Canadian high school students (N = 465; 257 girls, 208 boys) completed a questionnaire on the capacity for intimacy, best friend version; 232 of them completed the partner version of the questionnaire. Factorial analysis on the best friend version of the questionnaire identified 3 factors: Social Intimacy, Positive Intimacy, and Negative Intimacy. Factorial analysis on the partner version of the questionnaire identified 4 factors: Social Intimacy, Positive Intimacy, Negative Intimacy, and Sexual Intimacy.
Thériault
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Department of Sexology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires