A Validation Study of the Spanish Version of the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory (HBI): Paper-and-Pencil Versus Online Administration

Ballester‐Arnal, Rafael; Castro-Calvo, Jesús; Gil-Juliá, Beatriz; Giménez‐García, Cristina; Gil‐Llario, María Dolores

doi:10.1080/0092623x.2018.1518886

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“…Subsequently, Ballester-Arnal et al. ( in press ) obtained a similar factorial structure (three first-order factors grouped under a second-order factor) through a CFA in a sample of 2,250 participants between 18 and 40 years old, also demonstrating that the HBI is equally applicable in men and women without changes in its factorial structure (metric and configural invariance). In the Spanish validation study, the authors reported an internal consistency of between .82 and .93 for the total score and the subscales.…”

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Spanish validation of the Sexual Addiction Screening Test

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Background and aimsSexual addiction is a pathological behavior characterized by a combination of excessive sexual desire and impaired ability to control it. Its incidence ranges between 1.2% and 32.2%, although this number may vary depending on the screening tool used. This wide variability is largely due to the use of non-validated instruments (e.g., structural validity relying on exploratory analyses, instruments translated without an additional validation process, or instruments validated in another format). To deal with these limitations, this study tested the psychometric properties of the Spanish paper-and-pencil and online versions of the Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST).MethodsA total of 2,528 participants (1,163 males) completed the Spanish version of the SAST, along with other instruments assessing sexual compulsivity (1,585 = paper-and-pencil, 943 = online).ResultsThe exploratory factor analysis yielded a four-factor structure explaining 57.39% of the variance for the SAST paper-and-pencil version. This factor structure was then verified for the online version through the use of confirmatory factor analysis [χ2(264) = 441.59; χ2/df = 1.66; RMSEA = 0.02; CFI = 0.94; IFI = 0.94]. This methodology was also used to support measurement invariance (configural, metric, and scalar invariance) according to gender. The reliability of the total score ranged from .82 to .85. Similarly, correlations with related scales were positive and significant (r between .22 and .71). Temporal stability 1 year after the first application was 0.65 (paper-and-pencil format) and 0.60 (online version).ConclusionThese results, together with the absence of questionnaires translated into Spanish to assess this construct, justify the use of the SAST in the evaluation of sexual addiction in Spanish-speaking countries.

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“…Some existing measures also seem particularly well-poised for such evaluation. The widely used HBI-19 has been extensively tested in both clinical and non-clinical populations and translated into several languages for administration (Ballester-Arnal et al, 2019;. Similarly, the Brief Pornography Screen has been tested in nationally representative samples in both the United States and Poland , as well as in treatment seeking samples in Poland and in clinical samples in the United States .…”

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Sexual addiction 25 years on: A systematic and methodological review of empirical literature and an agenda for future research

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In 1998, Gold and Heffner authored a landmark review in Clinical Psychology Review on the topic of sexual addiction that concluded that sexual addiction, though increasingly popular in mental health settings, was largely based on speculation, with virtually no empirical basis. In the more than two decades since that review, empirical research around compulsive sexual behaviors (which subsumes prior research about sexual addiction) has flourished, ultimately culminating in the inclusion of a novel diagnosis of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder in the eleventh edition of the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases. The present work details a systematic review of empirical research published between January 1 st , 1995 and August 1 st , 2020 related to compulsive sexual behaviors, with a specific focus on evaluating the methodologies of that literature. This review yielded 371 papers detailing 415 individual studies. In general, the present review finds that, although research related to compulsive sexual behaviors has proliferated, much of this work is characterized by simplistic methodological designs, a lack of theoretical integration, and an absence of quality measurement. Moreover, the present review finds a virtual absence of high-quality treatment-related research published within this time frame. Implications of these findings for both clinical practice and future research are discussed.

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“…CSBD signs and symptoms were assessed through a new composite index based in three previously validated scales: the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory (HBI, Ballester-Arnal et al, 2019;Reid et al, 2011), the Sexual Compulsivity Scale (SCS, Ballester-Arnal et al, 2013;Kalichman & Rompa, 1995), and the Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST, Castro-Calvo et al, 2018;Carnes, 1983). Independently, these measures tend to be excessively narrow in the assessment of CSBD symptoms, not covering the wide range of criteria that should be explored to accurately assess this clinical condition (Womack et al, 2013); however, altogether these scales offer a comprehensive assessment of CSBD symptoms and severity.…”

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