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标题：Development and validity evidence of the multidimensional scale of sexual self-concept in a Spanish-speaking context
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作者：Rodrigo Ferrer-Urbina ; Geraldy Lorena Sepúlveda-Páez ; Diego-Tomás Henríquez 等
期刊名称：Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
印刷版ISSN：0102-7972
电子版ISSN：1678-7153
出版年度：2019
卷号：32
期号：1
页码：1-8
DOI：10.1186/s41155-019-0136-1
语种：English
出版社：Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
摘要：Abstract Background/objective STIs and HIV/AIDS are an important public health problem, transmitted by risky sex behaviours. In this context, it is necessary to identify protective factors, of those behaviours, as sexual self-concept. Sexual self-concept is a multidimensional trait (i.e. sexual self-esteem; sexual self-efficacy; and sexual assertiveness), but, in an extensive review, we did not find any measure to assess this multidimensional construct in a Spanish-speaking context. The objective of this research is development a scale to assess sexual self-concept in young people and adults. Method Time-space sampling with a total size of 792 participants, coming from the two Chilean cities (i.e. Arica and Iquique) with the highest HIV rates, aged between 17 and 53 years old (ME = 23.42; SD = 6.33), with 66.2% women (N = 500), 33.6% men (N = 258). Results Final scale has 16 items and 4 dimensions: sexual self-esteem, sexual self-efficacy, assertive sexual communication, and assertive sexual behaviour. The identified structure provides satisfactory levels of reliability (ω > .8) and presents robust evidence of validity, based on the internal structure of the test, using ESEM (RMSEA = .060; CFI = .99; TLI = .98), evidence of validity based on relationship to other variables (i.e. risky sexual behaviour) and measurement invariance between men and women. Conclusions The multidimensional scale of sexual self-concept has adequate psychometric properties to assess sexual self-concept in equivalent samples.