The sexuality scale: An instrument to measure sexual‐esteem, sexual‐depression, and sexual‐preoccupation

Snell, William E.; Papini, Dennis R.

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“…The same thing happened with sexual preoccupation, which was especially related to desire. This may be due to the fact that the questionnaire used (Snell & Papini, 1989) labels a series of questions related to sexual desire as preoccupation. We also found that dissatisfaction with sexual life is related to sociosexual desire but not to past behavior or to attitudes.…”

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The Tridimensional Structure of Sociosexuality: Spanish Validation of the Revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory

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Correa

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Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy

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“…Sexuality Scale (SS; Snell & Papini, 1989). This scale consists of 15 items assessing perceptions of one's own sexuality on three components: self-esteem as sexual partner (e.g., "…”

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The Tridimensional Structure of Sociosexuality: Spanish Validation of the Revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory

Barrada

Castro

Correa

et al. 2017

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy

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“…Moreover, we used the Sexuality Scale (Snell & Papini, 1989) to capture sexual esteem (10 items; e.g., "I would rate my sexual skill quite highly") and sexual depression (10 items; e.g., "I am depressed about the sexual aspects of my life") using the same response scale as for the MSPQ. Finally, we used the sex life satisfaction subscale of the Extended Satisfaction With Life Scale (Alfonso, Allison, Rader, & Gorman, 1996) to capture participants' satisfaction with their sex life (5 items; e.g., "In most ways my sex life is close to my ideal") with participants responding on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree).…”

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Multidimensional Sexual Perfectionism

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Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality characteristic that can affect all areas of life.This article presents the first systematic investigation of multidimensional perfectionism in the domain of sexuality exploring the unique relationships that different forms of sexual perfectionism show with positive and negative aspects of sexuality. A sample of 272 university students (52 male, 220 female) completed measures of four forms of sexual perfectionism: selforiented, partner-oriented, partner-prescribed, and socially prescribed. In addition, they completed measures of sexual esteem, sexual self-efficacy, sexual optimism, sex life satisfaction (capturing positive aspects of sexuality) and sexual problem self-blame, sexual anxiety, sexual depression, and negative sexual perfectionism cognitions during sex (capturing negative aspects).Results showed unique patterns of relationships for the four forms of sexual perfectionism, suggesting that partner-prescribed and socially prescribed sexual perfectionism are maladaptive forms of sexual perfectionism associated with negative aspects of sexuality whereas self-oriented and partner-oriented sexual perfectionism emerged as ambivalent forms associated with positive and negative aspects.

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“…In addition, schema scores display concurrent validity in association with other individual differences related to the sexual domain, including such behavioral-attitudinal constructs as sociosexuality (Simpson & Gangestad, 1991); affective constructs such as erotophobia-erotophilia (Fisher, White, Byrne, & Kelly, 1988); and alternate cognitive constructs such as sexual esteem (Snell, Fisher, & Schuh, 1992;Snell & Papini, 1989). Our data indicate that sexual self-schema scores predictably correlate with, yet do not overlap, these alternate sexual constructs (Andersen & Cyranowski, 1995).…”

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“…For example, negative-schema women report lower levels of sexual desire (as measured by the Sexual Responsiveness Scale; Andersen, Andersen & deProsse, 1989), and are less preoccupied with sexual thoughts (as assessed with the Sexuality Scale; Snell & Papini, 1989). In other words, women with negative sexual selfschemas report relatively less interest in sexual activity and fewer sexual thoughts or fantasies than women with positive sexual self-views (Andersen & Cyranowski, 1994;Cyranowski & Andersen, 1998a).…”

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The role of sexual self-schema in a diathesis—stress model of sexual dysfunction

Cyranowski¹,

Aarestad²,

Andersen³

1999

Applied and Preventive Psychology

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Sexual self-schemas are cognitive generalizations regarding sexual aspects of the self that represent a core component of one's sexuality. We contend that individual differences in the sexual self-view represent an important cognitive diathesis for predicting sexual difficulty or dysfunction. We illustrate the role of sexual self-schemas on sexual behavior and responsiveness in healthy female and male samples. Next, we describe how diathesis-stress models of psychopathology have been applied to the sexual arena, and discuss the critical features of clinically useful diathesis variables. Drawing from these criteria, we examine the diathetic properties of sexual self-schemas. Finally, we discuss an empirical test of the proposed diathesis-stress interaction, reviewing the role of women's sexual self-views on sexual morbidity following diagnosis and treatment for gynecologic cancer. KeywordsDiathesis-stress model; Sexual dysfunction; Sexual functioning; Sexual self-schema Sexual difficulties are both widespread and clinically significant. Recent epidemiological research by Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, and Michaels (1994) obtained telling 1-year prevalence rates across a variety of specific sexual difficulties. Among women, 33% reported lack of sexual desire, 19% had difficulty with lubrication, and 24% were unable to reach orgasm. The male statistics were also significant. Commonly reported difficulties among men included climaxing too early (29%), sexual performance anxiety (17%), and low sexual desire (16%). Whereas 10% of all men surveyed reported significant erectile difficulties, prevalence rates increased with age-with more than 20% of men over age 50 reporting erectile problems. Hence, the sexual dysfunctions are perhaps one of the most common yet underreported of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) diagnoses.Many have commented on the relative dearth of comprehensive and testable models regarding the etiology and course of the sexual dysfunctions (e.g., see R R. Abramson, 1992). The exceptions, such as Barlow's (1986) NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript theoretical models, though conceptually heuristic, have had limited impact on the prevention or treatment of sexual dysfunction in the community or clinic (e.g., see Bancroft, 1997;Weiderman, 1998).The current conceptual framework takes a cognitive approach to sexuality. Previously, we proposed the notion of individual differences in women's (Andersen & Cyranowski, 1994) and men's (Andersen, Cyranowski, & Espindle, 1999) view of themselves as sexual persons-or their sexual self-schemas. This approach to sexual assessment has been shown to predict sexual behavior and responsiveness. More-over, recent research indicates that this cognitive assessment tool may be used to predict sexual difficulty or dysfunction in certain at-risk populations (Andersen, Woods, & Copeland, 1997).Sexual self-schemas represent basic or core beliefs about sexual aspect...

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The sexuality scale: An instrument to measure sexual‐esteem, sexual‐depression, and sexual‐preoccupation

Cited by 276 publications

References 10 publications

The Tridimensional Structure of Sociosexuality: Spanish Validation of the Revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory

The Tridimensional Structure of Sociosexuality: Spanish Validation of the Revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory

Multidimensional Sexual Perfectionism

The role of sexual self-schema in a diathesis—stress model of sexual dysfunction

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