Race and gender differences in black and white newlyweds’ perceptions of sexual and marital relations

Oggins, Jean; Leber, Douglas; Veroff, Joseph

doi:10.1080/00224499309551696

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“…However, culture has been shown in the literature to impact sexual attitudes and sexual behaviors (e.g., Meston, Trapnell, & Gorzalka, 1998;Okazaki, 2002;Tsui, 1985). In particular, studies have shown that African American women report higher levels of sexual satisfaction compared to Caucasian women when socioeconomic status is controlled for (Cain, Johannes, & Avis, 2003;Henderson-King & Veroff, 1994;Oggins, Leber, & Veroff, 1993). Women from Hispanic, Anglo-American, and bicultural backgrounds reported a strong relation between passionate love and marital satisfaction that was not observed in Caucasian couples (Contreras, Hendrick, & Hendrick, 1996).…”

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Validation of the McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire in an Italian Sample

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This article presents the result of a study that translated into Italian and validated the McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire (MFSQ) on an Italian sample. The questionnaire was first administered to a sample of 240 Italian women (age range, 18-65 years) recruited from a gynecology clinic. A principal component analysis identified 2 factors: sexuality (9 items) and partnership (5 items). Both factors showed an adequate inter-item reliability (Cronbach's alpha of .88 and .75, respectively). The validity of the Italian MFSQ was then tested by administering the questionnaire to a sample of 16 women with sexual dysfunction and 46 control women. Sexual dysfunction diagnoses were assessed through a semi-standardized interview based on the DSM-IV-TR diagnoses for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder, Female Orgasmic Disorder, Dyspareunia, and Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. A discriminant validity test showed significant differences between women with and without female sexual dysfunction. These results indicate that the translated version of the MFSQ is a reliable and valid measure of sexual dysfunction among Italian women. The results also indicated a difference in factor structure between the Italian and the original version of the MFSQ, which warrants further investigation.

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Validation of the McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire in an Italian Sample

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“…In the area of sexuality, Oggins et al (1993) explored race and gender differences in African American and White American newlyweds' perceptions of sexual and marital relations and found that both African American and White American women's positive perception of marital relations may enhance their sexual relations, while for both White and African American men, sexual enjoyment was independent of positive marital relations. However, White American wives were more likely to associate positive sexual relations with feelings of care vs. African American wives who associated sexual enjoyment with enjoying relaxing times and an exciting life with their husbands.…”

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Marriage Among African Americans: What Does the Research Reveal?

Dixon

2008

J Afr Am St

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The research reveals that African Americans are the least likely to marry, when they marry, they do so later and spend less time married than White Americans, and they are the least likely to stay married. Factors contributing to the marriage status of African Americans include structural, cultural, individual and interactive factors. Structural factors include the disparity in sex ratios between African American males and females and employment instability among African American males. Cultural factors include changing cultural trends such as marriage not being a perquisite for sex, the independence of women, the shift from familism to individualism, cohabitation as an increasing option, and the promotion of the values of materialism and patriarchy through popular culture. Individual factors stem from an internalization of cultural values that affects people's perceptions of marriage and their expectations of potential mates, their willingness to commit to a relationship that can lead to marriage, and, once they marry, their willingness to sustain the marriage through the challenges it will face. Added to this is the fact that, until recent federal funding in 2006, there was little or no education to help couples sustain relationships to marriage or sustain the marriage after they are married. In addition, all members of US society are expected to conform to the dominant group's idea of the monogamous, nuclear family. This forces those who opt for other life styles e.g., gay and lesbian, polygynous, etc., to stay in cohabitating relationships. All of these factors contributes to African Americans being less likely to marry and more likely to divorce.

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“…The breadth of research that has assessed sexual quality is extensive and reaches into a variety of different domains. Numerous empirical articles have examined the links between sexual quality and relationship quality (Butzer & Campbell, 2008;Byers, 2005;Haavio-Mannila & Kontula, 1997;Oggins, Leber, & Veroff, 1993), infidelity (Mark, Janssen, & Milhausen, 2011;Plack, Kroger, Allen, Baucom, & Hahlweg, 2010;Shaw, Rhoades, Allen, Stanley, & Markman, 2013), body image (Daniel & Bridges, 2013;Pujols & Meston, 2009), physical health and illness (Connell, Coates, Doherty-Poirier, & Wood, 2013;Foster & Byers, 2013;Yount, 2013), childhood sexual abuse (Easton, Coohey, O'Leary, Zhang, & Hua, 2011;Meston, Lorenz, & Stephenson, 2013;Stroebel et al, 2012), and mental health (Holmberg, Blair, & Phillips, 2010;Suvak, Brogan, & Shipherd, 2012;Syme, Klonoff, Macera, & Brodine, 2013), suggesting that the quality of an individual's sexual life can be strongly linked to many other areas of individual functioning. Additionally, in sex therapy and sexual medicine, sexual quality is often used as a gauge of sexual and relationship health.…”

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Evaluating and Refining the Construct of Sexual Quality With Item Response Theory: Development of the Quality of Sex Inventory

Shaw

Rogge

2016

Arch Sex Behav

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This study took a critical look at the construct of sexual quality. The 65 items of four well-validated self-report measures of sexual satisfaction (the Index of Sexual Satisfaction [ISS], Hudson, Harrison, & Crosscup, 1981; the Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction [GMSEX], Lawrance & Byers, 1995; the Pinney Sexual Satisfaction Inventory [PSSI], Pinney, Gerrard, & Denney, 1987; the Young Sexual Satisfaction Scale [YSSS], Young, Denny, Luquis, & Young, 1998) and an additional 74 potential sexual quality items were given to 3060 online participants. Using Item Response Theory (IRT), we demonstrated that the ISS, YSSS, and PSSI scales provided suboptimal levels of precision in assessing sexual quality, particularly given the length of those scales. Exploratory factor analyses, IRT, differential item functioning analyses, and longitudinal responsiveness analyses were used to develop and evaluate the Quality of Sex Inventory. Results suggested that, in comparison to existing scales, the QSI (1) offers investigators and clinicians more theoretically focused scales, (2) distinguishes sexual satisfaction from sexual dissatisfaction, and (3) offers greater precision and power for detecting differences with (4) comparably high levels of responsiveness for detecting change over time despite being notably shorter than most of the existing scales. The QSI-satisfaction subscales demonstrated strong convergent validity with other measures of sexual satisfaction and excellent construct validity with anchor scales from the nomological net surrounding that construct, suggesting that they continue to assess the same theoretical construct as prior scales. Implications for research are discussed.

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Race and gender differences in black and white newlyweds’ perceptions of sexual and marital relations

Cited by 34 publications

References 25 publications

Validation of the McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire in an Italian Sample

Validation of the McCoy Female Sexuality Questionnaire in an Italian Sample

Marriage Among African Americans: What Does the Research Reveal?

Evaluating and Refining the Construct of Sexual Quality With Item Response Theory: Development of the Quality of Sex Inventory

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