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Psychometric properties and validation of the women’s sexual self-schema evaluation in a young Ecuadorian sample

Abstract:

We examined how young Ecuadorian women describe themselves sexually. The evaluation of the female sexual self-schema (ASF) allowed us to understand the attraction or rejection to sexually-related information or behaviors. The participants were 414 women, students at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador) with an average age of 19.74 years. They all completed the ASF scale. The results of our analysis indicated that there were 3 ASF factors that explained 67.71% of the total variance: eroticism, romanticism and negative affectivity. The young women tended to identify more with adjectives related to the romantic component of sexuality: loving, affectionate, warm, tender or romantic. On the other hand, they identify themselves less with adjectives related to negative affect and eroticism such as: repressed, erotic, ardent, closed and self-conscious. The internal consistency of the instrument for each of the three factors estimated through Cronbach's alpha was: Erotism α=.952, Romanticism α=.864 and Negative Affectivity α=.896.