The Relationship between the Sexual Double Standard and Women’s Sexual Health and Comfort

Marks, Michael J.; Busch, Tara M.; Wu, Ashley

doi:10.1080/19317611.2022.2069179

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“…Correlation between the SDS and sexual permissiveness was negative but not significant and did not support the demonstration of validity. One explanation for this might be the increasing distance between concepts -attitudes vs. judgment of sexual conduct -as there is evidence the SDS and gender influence is weakening with respect to women's comfort with sex, a variable in close relation with sexual permissiveness (Marks et al, 2022;Seguino, 2016). Likewise, there was an unexpected correlation between extroversion and the sexual action/activities subscale (and the global New SDS Scale), that it was thought after as not necessarily strange because this personality trait has been positively related to sexual activity (Allen & Walter, 2018).…”

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Development and evidence of validity of the new sexual double standard scale

Amaro,

Alvarez,

Ferreira

et al. 2023

Curr Psychol

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The Sexual Double Standard is a complex multi-layered construct that functions as an organizing principle of heterosexual behavior. It is a dynamic, ubiquitous, two-dimensional sexual gendered norm, the quantitative exploration of which requires up-to-date assessment tools to better capture both personal endorsement and social recognition of the SDS. This study develops a New SDS Scale to assess personal SDS, which is easily adapted to measure societal SDS, with demonstration of its validity and gender invariance. College students (N = 481) completed the New SDS Scale, plus convergent-divergent and concurrent validity measures. Exploratory analysis indicated an eight-item two-factor structure. Confirmatory factor analysis showed the better adjustment of a bifactor structure combining a general factor of SDS and the subscales Sexual Relationships and Actions/Activities. In addition to factorial validity, results were also demonstrative of convergent, discriminant, and concurrent validity, and reliability and gender invariance were demonstrated. The new scale may be a useful tool to briefly assess personal endorsement of the SDS or of alternative standards, and it can easily be adapted to measure perceptions about the social existence of the SDS. Beyond the potential for practical application to individual or group assessment in clinical and educational settings, the New SDS Scale updates our knowledge on the types of sexual conduct that elicit the SDS, identifying critically gendered activities for which permissiveness continues to be markedly differentiated, despite the openness and sexual freedom of recent years.

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Section: Development Of the New Scalementioning

confidence: 99%