Development and validity evidence of the multidimensional scale of sexual selfconcept in a Spanish-speaking context
Psicol. reflex. crit
;
32: 22, 2019. tab
Article
in English
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| ID: biblio-1101331
ABSTRACT
Abstract Background/objective:
STIs and HIV/AIDS are an important public health problem, transmitted by risky sex behaviours. In this context, it is necessary to identify protective factors, of those behaviours, as sexual self-concept. Sexual self-concept is a multidimensional trait (i.e. sexual self-esteem; sexual self-efficacy; and sexual assertiveness), but, in an extensive review, we did not find any measure to assess this multidimensional construct in a Spanish-speaking context. The objective of this research is development a scale to assess sexual self-concept in young people and adults.Method:
Time-space sampling with a total size of 792 participants, coming from the two Chilean cities (i.e. Arica and Iquique) with the highest HIV rates, aged between 17 and 53 years old (ME = 23.42; SD = 6.33), with 66.2% women (N = 500), 33.6% men (N = 258).Results:
Final scale has 16 items and 4 dimensions sexual self-esteem, sexual self-efficacy, assertive sexual communication, and assertive sexual behaviour. The identified structure provides satisfactory levels of reliability (ω > .8) and presents robust evidence of validity, based on the internal structure of the test, using ESEM (RMSEA = .060; CFI = .99; TLI = .98), evidence of validity based on relationship to other variables (i.e. risky sexual behaviour) and measurement invariance between men and women.Conclusions:
The multidimensional scale of sexual self-concept has adequate psychometric properties to assess sexual selfconcept in equivalent samples.
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Index:
LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Self Concept
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Sexual Behavior
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Reproducibility of Results
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prevalence study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Chile
Language:
English
Journal:
Psicol. reflex. crit
Journal subject:
Psychology
Year:
2019
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Chile
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidad de Tarapacá/CL
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