Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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MSc, Clinical Psychology, Azad University, Shiraz, Iran.
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Professor, department of psychology, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
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Assistant Professor of Psychology Department, Mazandaran University, Mazandaran, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: Women's sexual self-efficacy is an important factor in the quality of couples' sexual relations. Sexual self-efficacy indicates a person's level of confidence in having a successful sexual relationship. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Women's Sexual Self-Efficacy Questionnaire in Iranian clinical and non-clinical samples.
Method: After preparing the questionnaire, each individual of clinical and non-clinical samples completed the Women's Sexual Self-Efficacy Scale, Women's Sexual Performance, the Multidimensional Women's Sexual Satisfaction Scale, and the Anxiety, Stress, and Depression Scale to assess convergent and divergent validity. A separate sample of 60 people was selected and they were asked to complete a female sexual self-efficacy questionnaire in two time at intervals of 1 month. Non-clinical samples were 360 married women who were selected from the general population according to Morgan table and based on available sampling. The clinical sample were 60 married women who have referred to treatment centers due to sexual problems and were selected by the clinical interview. Convergent, divergent and factor analysis methods were used to evaluate the validity of the questionnaire and conventional internal consistency methods (Cronbach's alpha and halving) were used to evaluate the reliability.
Results: Findings related to factor analysis of the questionnaire identified four factors in the clinical sample and three factors in the non-clinical sample. In convergent validity, the results indicate a high relationship between women's sexual self-efficacy with women's sexual function, multidimensional scale of women's sexual satisfaction, and in divergent validity, the results indicate weak relationships or between this questionnaire with anxiety, stress and It was depression. The analyzes provided significant evidence of reliability in the sexual self-efficacy scale in Iranian clinical and non-clinical samples (Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.88 and halving 0.87).
Discussion and Conclusion: In general, the validity and reliability of this scale for use in the population of married Iranian women was confirmed and supported by the evidence obtained.
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