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Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory: A Preliminary Study of Reliability and Validity
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This preliminary study was designed to develop empirically a scale of compulsive sexual behavior (CSB) and to test its reliability and validity in a sample of individuals with nonparaphilic CSB (N = 15), in a sample of pedophiles (N = 35) in treatment for sexual offending, and in a sample of normal controls (N = 42). Following a factor analysis and a varimax rotation, those items with factor loadings on the rotated factors of greater than .60 were retained. Three factors were identified, which appeared to measure control, abuse, and violence. Cronbach's alphas indicated that the subscales have good reliability. The 28-item scale was then tested for validity by a linear discriminant function analysis. The scale successfully discriminated the nonparaphilic CSB sample and the pedophiles from controls. Further analysis indicated that this scale is a valid measure of CSB in that there were significant differences between the three groups on the control subscale. Pedophiles scored significantly lower than the other two groups on the abuse subscale, with the other two groups not scoring significantly differently from one another. This indicated that pedophiles were more abusive than the nonparaphilic CSB individuals or the controls. Pedophiles scored significantly lower than controls on the violence subscale. Nonparaphilic individuals with compulsive sexual behavior scored slightly lower on the violence subscale, although not significantly different. As a preliminary study, there are several limitations to this study, which should be addressed, in further studies with larger sample sizes.
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- Authors
- Coleman, M. M.
- Venue
- Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2001-07
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 325-332
- ISSN
- 0092-623X (ISSN-L)
- 1521-0715
- OpenAlex
- W2160661268
- Cited by
- 218
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 2.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Sexual function and dysfunction studies
- Keywords
- compulsive sexual behavior, scale development, reliability statistics, validity, pedophiles, paraphilic disorders, sexual abuse, sexual violence
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Compulsive Behavior, Humans, Male, Paraphilic Disorders, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sexual Behavior, Reproducibility of Results
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