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Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología
Print version ISSN 0120-0534
Abstract
FERRER-URBINA, Rodrigo; MENA-CHAMORRO, Patricio; ZAMBRANA, Patricio and RAMIREZ, Cristian. Development and validity evidence of the Two-Dimensional Sexual Sensation Seeking Scale. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.52, pp.176-183. Epub Mar 01, 2021. ISSN 0120-0534. https://doi.org/10.14349/rlp.2020.v52.18.
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), mainly HIV/AIDS, are acquired through risky sexual behaviors that have been associated with sexual sensation seeking. The purpose of this work is development a new scale for the assessment of sexual sensations seeking, with evidence of validity based on internal structure and relationship to other measures, for use in young people and adults in a Latin American context. An instrumental study was performed, with time-space sampling of students from the two Chilean cities with the highest rates of HIV. Final scale has 9 items to evaluate two dimensions: (1) sexual emotions seeking and (2) tendency to sexual boredom. The identified structure provides good levels of reliability and presents validity evidence, based on the internal structure of the test, using CFA and ESEM. Two-dimensional sexual sensation seeking scale evidence proper psychometric properties to evaluate the seeking for sexual sensations in equivalents samples.
Keywords : Sexual sensation seeking; HIV/AIDS; sexual risk behavior; ESEM; psychometric scales development.