Terri Fisher - Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures

HANDBOOK OF SEXUALITY-RELATED MEASURES

THIRD EDITION

This classic and invaluable reference Handbook of use to sex researchers and their students worldwide has now been completely revised in a new edition complete with its own companion website. It remains the only easy and efficient way for researchers to learn about, evaluate, and compare instruments that have previously been used in sex research. In this third edition of the Handbook, 218 scales, complete with full descriptions and psychometric data, are made available, with additional information provided at the companion website for this volume.

Terri D. Fisher has been on the psychology faculty of The Ohio State University since 1982. She has conducted research on various aspects of sexual behavior and is Past-President of the Midcontinent Region of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and Consulting Editor for The Journal of Sex Research.

Clive M. Davis taught at Syracuse University. Davis research was focused on sexuality and communications. He was Editor of The Journal of Sex Research and President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. He was the founding president of the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.

William L.Yarber is professor of applied health science and professor of gender studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also a senior research fellow at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction and the senior director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention at Indiana University. He is a Past-President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.

Sandra L. Davis was an Executive Assistant in the New York State Assembly for 15 years. From 1983-1988, she was Managing Editor of The Journal of Sex Research and then served as Assistant Editor for the Annual Review of Sex Research for 10 years. She currently edits the online series What Sexual Scientists Know About published by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.

Summaries of all scales, additional information regarding some of the scales, and complete versions of several others may be found at the companion website to the Handbook: http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415801751

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HANDBOOK OF SEXUALITY-RELATED MEASURES

THIRD EDITION

Edited by

Terri D. Fisher

Clive M. Davis

William L. Yarber

Sandra L. Davis

For important resources associated with this text please visit the companion website: www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415801751

First edition published 1988

by Clive M. Davis, William L. Yarber, and Sandra L. Davis

Second edition published 1998

by Sage Publications, Inc.

This edition published 2011

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Handbook of Sexuality related measures / edited by Terri D. Fisher [et al.]. 3rd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. SexologyResearchHandbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Birth controlResearchHandbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Hygiene, SexualResearchHandbooks, manuals, etc. 4. Sexual behavior surveysHandbooks, manuals, etc. 5. Questionnaires. I. Fisher, Terri D.

HQ60.H36 2010

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2009048685

ISBN13: 9780415801744 (hbk)

ISBN13: 9780415801751(pbk)

Research is fundamental to increasing the understanding of individual and societal sexual expression. Reliable and valid measurement is fundamental to sound research. Although there have been many questionnaires, scales, inventories, interview schedules, etc. developed to measure a myriad of sexuality-related states and traits, attitudes and behaviors, variations and deviations, in the past, relatively few of these were used sufficiently for their reliability and validity to have been firmly established. Instead, there was a tendency for researchers to reinvent the wheel when they had need of a sexuality-related measure.

For an instrument to be used, it must be available to the community of professionals in the field. In order to solve the problem of accessibility of scales, Clive M. Davis, William L. Yarber, and Sandra L. Davis edited and published Sexuality-Related Measures: A Compendium in 1988. Prior to the publication of this compendium, there was no easy or efficient way for researchers to learn about, evaluate, and compare instruments that had been previously used in sex research. Although this task has become easier with the advent of the Internet, tracking down available sexuality-related measures has remained a challenge.

The first edition, which consisted of 110 scales, was revised in 1998 by Davis, Yarber, and Davis, with the assistance of Robert Bauserman and George Schreer. The second edition, published by Sage, contained 225 scales. Since the previous edition, sex research has progressed, expanded, and transformed, but despite the increase in physiologically based measures there is still a great need for sound psychometric instruments.

In this third edition of the Handbook, we have included 218 scales, with some additional ones at the companion website for this volume, which may be found at http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415801751. However, because of the large expansion of the field, we have made the decision that this edition will focus more directly on solid sexuality-related measures. Therefore, we have eliminated a few categories of measures that were included in the previous two editions; for example, we have not included measures of abortion attitudes or of sex-role behavior. We have also eliminated a number of obsolete measures. This edition consists of 87 new scales, 43 revised entries from the previous edition, and 88 entries from the previous edition for which we did not receive a revision but which we chose to retain nonetheless.