Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8093
Authors: Rausch, Diana
Dekker, Arne
Rettenberger, Martin
Title: The construct of sexual openness for females in steady intimate relationships
Online publication date: 18-Oct-2022
Year of first publication: 2017
Language: english
Abstract: The analysis of open-minded attitudes towards sexuality in general requires a construct based on attitudinal dimensions. Although several existing studies involve sexual attitudes, they differ substantially and standardized conceptual work is missing. Thus, the authors introduce the latent variable sexual openness to develop a construct based on self-oriented attitudes towards different sexual topics. Available survey data of female German students in a steady relationship allowed providing a first empirical test for the applicability of this construct. Five subdimensions are acknowledged central for sexual openness: sexual practices, masturbation, bisexuality, permissiveness, and pornography consumption. Confirmatory factor analysis and correlations confirmed the idea of an underlying mechanism with an impact on all five variables. Though further validation of the construct of sexual openness is required, the findings strongly support the notion of an overarching latent attitude variable, which influences the individual relation to everything sexual. The results were compared to other studies and potential approaches for future analyses were proposed.
DDC: 150 Psychologie
150 Psychology
Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department: FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
Place: Mainz
ROR: https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8093
Version: Published version
Publication type: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License: CC BY
Information on rights of use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal: PLoS one
12
6
Pages or article number: e0172274
Publisher: PLoS
Publisher place: Lawrence, Kan.
Issue date: 2017
ISSN: 1932-6203
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172274
Publisher DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172274
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