Validation of direct and indirect measures of preference for sexualized violence.

Abstract

Individuals differ in the extent to which they are interested in sexualized violence as displayed in the frequent but not ubiquitous sexual interest in consensual acts of violent sexual roleplay and violent pornographic media in the normal population. The present research sought to develop and validate a multi-method asessment battery to measure individual differences in the preference for sexualized violence (PSV). Three indirect measures (Implicit Association Test, Semantic Misattribution Paradigm, Viewing Time) were combined in an online study with 107 men and 103 women. Participants with and without an affiliation with sadomasochistic sexual interest groups were recruited on corresponding internet platforms. Results revealed that all three indirect measures converged in predicting self-reported sexual interest in nonconsensual sexuality. Specifically, for men all indirect measures were related to non-consensual sadistic sexual interest, whereas for women an association with masochistic sexual interest was found. Stimulus artefacts versus genuine gender differences are discussed as potential explanations of this dissociation. An outlook on the usability of the assessment battery in applied settings is delivered.

Indirect Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Comparison of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure, Viewing Time, and Choice Reaction Time Tasks

“…Thus, a considerable variety of conceptually different indirect measures tapping into (deviant) sexual interests has been developed (Snowden, Craig, & Gray, 2011;Larue et al, 2014;Schmidt, Banse, & Imhoff, in press). In the present study, three indirect latency-based measures of sexual orientationincluding a newly developed task-will be compared, representing two conceptually different types of indirect measurement rationales: task-relevant and task-irrelevant indirect latencybased measurement of sexual orientation (Schmidt et al, in press).…”

Discriminating Coercive from Sadomasochistic Sexuality

“…Several of our measures, such as the SMRA and the FAI scales are face valid, and participants may have been hesitant to openly endorse sexually explicit and/or such low social desirability items despite our efforts to emphasize and protectanonymityandconfidentiality.Further,theSMRAhasnot been widely used in the literature and the FAI was created especially for this study. It should also be noted that the dichotomous nature of the FAI (endorsing yes or no for each behavior or fantasy) is a limitation as someone with a single fantasy or behavior would still indicate true for an item without regard to the frequency or persistence of such episodes.Future investigations may benefit from assessing the frequency and nature of behaviors/ fantasies and their subsequent relation to the aforementioned trait characteristics to further clarify the nature of the relationship between these variables, especially as the endorsement of various paraphilic and coercive behaviors and fantasies varies by modality of measurement, gender, and perhaps other various trait characteristics (e.g., Dawson et al, 2014;Larue et al, 2014). Future research should focus on measuring other correlates of coercive and SM sexual activity.…”

Sexueller Sadismus: Aktueller Wissensstand und die Codierung gemäß DSM-5-TR und ICD-11

“…Einschränkend muss erwähnt werden, dass wesentliche Aspekte beider diagnostischer Kriterien des DSM-5 von außen nicht beobachtbar sind, sondern allenfalls indirekt aus dem Verhalten des Betroffenen abgeleitet werden können, sofern derjenige nicht gewillt ist, seine Fantasien oder Bedürfnisse mitzuteilen. Eine vielversprechende Ergänzung zur psychiatrischen Exploration, die allerdings noch weite-rer Überprüfung bedarf, stellt daher ein indirektes Testverfahren auf Grundlage der Betrachtungszeit für entsprechendes Bildmaterial dar (Larue et al 2014). Ferner sind Blickbewegungsmessungen im Hinblick auf einschlägige Stimuli erprobt worden (Hogue und Perkins 2014).…”