A factorial study of sexuality in adult males

Abstract

The results from this study tend to confirm Thorne's contention regarding the fixity and fluidity of sexual attitudes, drives, interests and patterns. A particular scale score should be assessed as tapping, on the one hand, relatively fixed, stable attitudes and, on the other, situational, temporary sexual reactions and/or patterns in the stage of development and stabilization. SUMMARYThis paper reports on the test-retest reliabilities of the ten scale scores and the 200 items of The Sex Inventory. The sample consisted of male and female college students tested three months apart. The results suggest acceptable levels of reliability for all scale scores. The coefficients for most items point to the presence of relatively stable attitudes, interests and drives. Scale scores are interpreted as reflecting current psychological states in which both fixed, stable attitudes as well as temporary interests, drives and reactions and possibly developing sexual patterns are tapped.

The use of subliminal psychodynamic activation in the study of repression.

“…Subjects were 33 female college students from introductory psychology classes at New York University selected for high sexual guilt (by a median-split) on the basis of a questionnaire consisting of 16 questions pertaining to sexual attitudes. It was constructed with the use of the Mosher Forced-Choice Guilt Inventory (Mosher, 1966), the Thorne Sex Inventory (Gailbraith, 1969; Thorne, 1966; Thorne & Haupt, 1966), and a Lieman and Epstein sex guilt questionnaire (Lieman & Epstein, 1961). (See Geisler, 1982, for questionnaire and distribution of scores.…”

“…Subjects were 33 female college students from introductory psychology classes at New York University selected for high sexual guilt (by a median-split) on the basis of a questionnaire consisting of 16 questions pertaining to sexual attitudes. It was constructed with the use of the Mosher Forced-Choice Guilt Inventory (Mosher, 1966), the Thorne Sex Inventory (Gailbraith, 1969;Thorne, 1966;Thome & Haupl, 1966), 1 This stimulus can be viewed as activating both sexual conflict in general and oedipal conflict in particular. I have chosen to refer to it more conservatively as activating sexual conflict because unless one also used the stimulus "LOVING IS WRONG," there would be no way of knowing whether what was elicited by "LOVING DADDY IS WRONG" was due specifically to its oedipal denotation.…”

Multivariate assessment of sexual dysfunction.

“…The other two (the Sexual Orientation Method and the Self-Evaluation of Sexual Behavior and Gratification) will be more fully described. Thome's 200-item Sex Inventory (SI;1966a, 1966b) contains scales that provide information in such areas as a patient's sex drive, sexual maladjustment, sexual satisfaction, and conflict. Some items also reflect an individual's attitudes toward sexuality.…”

“…Thorne’s 200-item Sex Inventory (SI; 1966a, 1966b) contains scales that provide information in such areas as a patient’s sex drive, sexual maladjustment, sexual satisfaction, and conflict. Some items also reflect an individual’s attitudes toward sexuality.…”

“…Additional research should be devoted to both these issues so that their clinical utility may be increased. At present, Thorne’s SI (1966a, 1966b), Derogatis’s DSFI (1978), LoPiccolo and Steger’s SII (1974), Lief’s SSBG (1981), and Hoon et al’s SAI (1976) are particularly noteworthy because in addition to good overall coverage, they provide measures of satisfaction with one’s partner’s sexual functioning as distinguished from measures of actual performance. Because these two type of measures are not necessarily highly correlated, this distinction has important implications, particularly for diagnostic purposes and for the assessment of change over the course of therapy.…”