title: Short scale to measure female sexuality: adapted from McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire.
abstract: This article examines sex-questionnaire data using the Personal Experiences Questionnaire (PEQ; Dennerstein, Hopper, & Burger, 1997). We used data from a population-based sample of 354 Australian mid-aged women and an optimization procedure in order to reduce the length of the PEQ while retaining items measuring the components of female sexual functioning and key determinants. Eight items were selected. We recommend retaining the item related to orgasm (rejected for parsimony only). Eight of the nine items were from the McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire, confirming the validity of this source scale. The original wording in the McCoy scale is recommended as considerable data has now become available on reliability and validity.
authors.affiliation: Office for Gender and Health, Department of Psychiatry, 6th Floor, Charles Connibere Building, University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria 3050, Australia. ldenn@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dennerstein
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lehert
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dudley
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007989:Libido; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000503:physiopathology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires