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Abstract(s)
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. Confrmatory 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
briefy 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 diferentiated, despite the
openness and sexual freedom of recent years.
Description
This work was supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), under Grant number PTDC/
PSI-GER/28530/2017.
Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on).
Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on).
Keywords
Sexual double standard Scale development Validation Bifactor model
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Amaro, H., Alvarez, M.-J., Ferreira, J. A., & Pereira, C. (2023). Development and evidence of validity of the new sexual double standard scale. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05025-x
Publisher
Springer